You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Phosphorus is a non-metal that sits just below nitrogen in group 15 of ...

For instance they discovered phosphorus when they isolated it from ... The zigzag, staircase, line in the diagram of the periodic table above separates the metals, on the left, from non-metals ...

For example, calcium and phosphorus form a strong foundation ... These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods. Of these, 11 are essential ...

Although metal ions are central to all of biochemistry, a group of elements clustered in the early part of the periodic table—carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus—are highly represented in ...