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What Connects Bones, Bird Poop, and Toxic Green Slime? Hint: Without It, Half of Us Wouldn't Be Alive Today

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The History of Phosphorus

Phosphorus didn't turn anything into gold, but alchemists found a way to monetize it anyway. Phosphorus is number 13 on the periodic table of elements. It's not found in its pure flammable state, normally. The folks making Phosphorus medicine coated it with silver and gold.

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