The incredible ""glowing"" history of the ""Devil\'s element ""Phosphorus Discovered by alchemists, prescribed by apothecaries, exploited by ninth-century industrialists, and abused by twentieth-century combatants, the chemical element Phosphorus has fascinated us for more than three centuries.
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It may even be the cause of will-o\'-the wisps and spontaneous human combustionNow John Emsley has written an enthralling account of this eerily luminescent element.
The incredible ""glowing"" history of the ""Devil\'s element ""Phosphorus Discovered by alchemists, prescribed by apothecaries, exploited by ninth-century industrialists, and abused by twentieth-century combatants, the chemical element Phosphorus has fascinated us for more than three centuries
