The devil's element phosphorus and a world out of balance
"The story of phosphorus spans the globe and vast tracts of human history. The race to mine phosphorus took people from the battlefields of Waterloo, which were looted for the bones of fallen soldiers, to the fabled guano islands off Peru, the Bone Valley of Florida, and the sand dunes of the Wester...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: the race for phosphorus
- The devil's element
- The circle of life, broken
- Bones to stones
- War of the sands
- Part II: the cost of phosphorus
- Dirty soap
- Toxic water
- Empty beaches
- A liquid heart, diseased
- Part III: the future of phsophorus
- Waste not.
