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the element that glows in the dark, fuels life, and burns down cities with equal enthusiasm
named forthe Greek for light-bringer, an old name for Venus
discoveryboiled from buckets of human urine in 1669
in your DNAits backbone is held together by phosphorus
white phosphorusignites on contact with air, burns to the bone
bottleneck of lifecrops fail without it, and reserves are finite