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History of Phosphorus

Chapter 15: Transcriber’s Notes
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The work traces the element's discovery and early curious properties, then surveys its chemistry and expanding roles in nature and technology. It outlines the development of knowledge about phosphoric acids and phosphate salts, explains their importance as plant nutrients and the chemical pathways linking inorganic phosphates to organic phosphorus compounds, and summarizes classes such as phosphatides and phosphagens. Attention is given to nucleic acids and the involvement of phosphorus in cellular energy, nerve and muscle function, and metabolism, as well as to medicinal and toxic applications, while highlighting how basic research and practical use informed each other.

Transcriber’s Notes

The following typographical errors have been corrected:

Page 180Abfällen, Vieweg, Braunschweig,” - had “Viewig”.

Page 188 “wires d from the dynamo D” - had “dynano”.

Page 191 “phosphate are attached, for example,” - had “attached, For”.

Page 192 “But phosphatides occur” - had “phosphatide soccur”.

Page 193 “the nucleic acid from the thymus” - had “nucleidic”.

Page 199 “acetylcholine esterase.” - had “acetylcholin”.

Page 200 “George de Hevesy, Carl F. Cori,” - comma added after Hevesy.

Footnote 39: “See, e.g., Chemical Week, vol. 77” - had “See. e.g.”

Index Entry: “Gahn, Johann Gottlieb, 182” - had “Gähn”

The spelling of “Bertholet” [Claude Louis Berthollet] is as given on the original title page of the work referenced in this paper.

Inconsistent hyphenation of chemical names has been retained.