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15 P 30.9737619985 u

Element 15 · Solid at room temperature

Phosphorus

Nonmetals

Looks like: colourless, waxy white, yellow, scarlet, red, violet, black.

P

Phosphorus is a chemical element with symbol P and atomic number 15. As an element, phosphorus exists in two major forms—white phosphorus and red phosphorus—but due to its high reactivity, phosphorus is never found as a free element on Earth. Instead phosphorus-containing minerals are almost always present in their maximally oxidised state, as inorganic phosphate rocks.

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Atomic mass

30.9737619985u

Density

1.823g/cm³

Melts

Boils

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Phosphorus's family

Elements in the same column share their outer-electron count, so they behave alike.

What it becomes

Everyday compounds in our curated set that contain Phosphorus — the upward direction of the map: atom → molecule → stuff you know.

Source

Discovered by Hennig Brand.

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