Algaes Role in Controlling Acid Rain

The biochemistry of phosphorus and phosphates is much too involved to be considered seriously in this work. Only veiy general concepts required to understand why orthophosphates and condensed phosphates are ideal building materials, when safety is a primaiy issue, will be considered. Both orthophosphates and 

There is small doubt that the only sin phosphates are guilty of is to bring life to planet Earth, but there are many other reasons why they are so well suited as building blocks of new substances, such as phosphate fibers. Above all, condensed phosphates are unstable in the presence of water. It is often stated that they are 

We have considered a phosphate, ortho- or condensed, to be more or less the same. This is surely not true when considering their role in life processes. It is their unique properties that give condensed phosphates their outstanding safety properties. Not only will a structure such as a fiber, composed of condensed phosphates, fall apart to become a nutrient, but enzymes in living organisms will cause it to fall apart more than one million times as rapidly as they would in sterile systems. Condensed phosphates are the ultimate in a biodegradable substance. Moreover, they fall apart to a beneficial orthophosphate that fosters and nurtures life. 

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