how does phosphorus burn in the air?
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you need three things to create a flame:  heat, oxygen, and fuel.  In the air, you have oxygen.  The phosphorous is the fuel, so if you apply a heat source, you will see a flame.  I don't know what makes a firefly glow.
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Humans affect the phosphorus cycle when farmers put fertilizers with phosphorus in them on their fields.
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http://www.indiana.edu/~bradwood/eagles/phosphate.htm\n\nhttp://pronet-internet.merck.de/Attachment/17795.ProNet.pdf?file
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If you neutralised the phosphorous in your system you would be dead isnatntly. Phosphorous is an esential component of ATP.
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PV=nRT\n\nas the air is heated the average kinetic energy of the molecules increases. ie P increases.But V is constant. so some gas molecules escape through the bottom. Hence the density decreases and becomes lesss than that of surrounding air.Thus the balloon rises.
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oxidation, i think.\n\nin this case, simple sugar reacting with oxygen in the air.\n\nIt's been a long time since my Chemistry 101 days.  Hope I got it right.
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The air is not warmed directly by the sun's rays, but by infrared, or long-wave radiation from the earth. The sun's rays strike the earth, and are absorbed by the earth, which raises the temperature of the earth. The earth reradiates the energy at a wavelength dependent on the temperature of the earth. The air is able to absorb the earth radiation, and becomes warmer. At high altitudes, as on mountain tops, strong winds keep the air mixed, and prevent much rise in temperatures near the surface of the mountain.\n\nAs you go up in altitude from the surface of the earth, the air cools at a fixed rate. This is called the "lapse rate," and for unsaturated air, that rate is about 5 deg. C. for each thousand feet of altitude. For saturated air, the rate is about 3.5 deg.C. for each thousand feet of altitude.
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Projectiles without the presence of air pressure creates a parabolic trajectory (path taken by a projectile).\n\n^_^
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Air has pressure, much like any gas.  By using this pressure it fills in cracks and crevices.
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there are many ways phosphates get into river systems, including seepage into ground water that connects to rivers further down stream, and topsoil runoff, but there are only 2 ways of preventing it from getting into the river:\n1) Stop the source from emmitting it\n2) Stop the flow from the source from reaching the river\n... and 2 ways of dealing with it once its there:\n1) Use living or man made filters to suck up the phosphate\n2) dilute the water so much that once tides return to normal the river is closer to normal, then repeat.\nThe government would like you to believe the primary source is home gardens, washing machines, dish washers and showers, but this amount of phosphate totals considerably less than the amount emmitted by companies that operate with highly phosphorous chemicals to produce the packaging and utensils society uses every day. The best place to act on reducing phosphate levels in rivers is in choosing wisely in supermarkets and department stores. look for the tag "phosphate free."
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I think you answered your own question.\n\nHydrogen atoms will bond then detach when ADP is formed.  It has to do with the valence electrons and the bonds created.  \n\nThe two outermost phosphates in ATP are held to the rest of the molecule by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds and are readily transferred. Water can be added to ATP to form ADP and inorganic phosphate (Pi). This hydrolysis of the terminal phosphate of ATP yields between 11 and 13 kcal/mole of usable energy, depending on the intracellular conditions. The large negative delta G of this reaction arises from a number of factors. Release of the terminal phosphate group removes an unfavorable repulsion between adjacent negative charges; in addition, the inorganic phosphate ion (Pi) released is stabilized by resonance and by favorable hydrogen-bond formation with water. The formation of ATP from ADP and Pi reverses the hydrolysis reaction, and it requires a coupling of this energetically unfavorable reaction to an even more favorable one.
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Phosphorus.  Same as incendiaries.
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Photophosphorylation uses the energy from the sun to phosphorylate (add a phosphate group to) ATP. Oxidative phosphorylation involves the oxidation of organic molecules to produce the energy required to phosphorylate ATP.
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Heated air is lighter than normal air, true so the heated air is pulling the flame up wile cooler air is feeding it oxgen from the bottem so the flame
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Phosphorus comes from soil and rock and enters the biosphere through dissolution by water. Plantsabsorb this phosphorus as an essential nutritent for growth, and animals obtain it by eating plants. It then returns by decomposition and from animal waste products to the soil or to sediments that eventually become rock. Here is a good flow chart:\nhttp://www.lenntech.com/phosphorus-cycle.htm\n\nI can't help you with the song idea. It might be a good idea, but being a visual learner, I can't conceive of one.
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its not just that "heat rises", but that things with lower densities rise above things with higher densities. ice floats in water, helium floats in air, etc.  heat is not an object that can rises, but it is an attribute of particles that affects their density. just like hot air rises, when a flame burns, it produces hot gases that rise. these gases are hot enough to produce light, so we see the light rising with the gases. by the time they have risen above the flame, they are no longer hot enough to give off light, so the flame doesn't go up forever.
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Phosphate washes your wash whiter and makes your waters greener.\n\n(with algae)