MIT moves toward greener chemistry

Saturday, September 4, 2010 - 06:00 in Earth & Climate

Phosphorus, a mineral element found in rocks and bone, is a critical ingredient in fertilisers, pesticides, detergents and other industrial and household chemicals. Once phosphorus is mined from rocks, getting it into these products is hazardous and expensive, and chemists have been trying to streamline the process for decades...

Read the whole article on

More from

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net