Phosphorus abundance

Primary interference reactions. These are nuclear reactions on elements other than the element to be determined which yield the same indicator radionuclide. For example, silicon is determined by the 28Si(, >)28Al reaction. However, the same indicator radionuclide is produced from phosphorus by the 31P(w,a)28Al reaction. Hence, a high phosphorus abundance in a sample will lead to erroneously high values for silicon. Corrections may be applied to the data if concentrations of the interfering elements can be determined independently. 

However, this is not enough to condense all chlorine, which requires a 3 1 ratio of P to Cl atoms to condense all chlorine in chlorapatite. In fact, the total phosphorus abundance is too small to condense all Cl in chlorapatite. The residual chlorine, which is about 60% of total Cl, condenses as halite NaCl (420 K). However, this forms sodalite Na AlSiO Cl (405 K, and again at 315 K), which decomposes back to halite plus nepheline (365 K), over the 405 - 315 K range. Both minerals are found in chondrites. Halite is probably present in many chondrites that contain water-soluble chlorine, even though it is not reported as one of the observed minerals. 

It must be emphasized that NMR is first and foremost a tool for structural analysis and, in addition to the petroleum analyses described above, the technique (phosphorus NMR and sometimes nitrogen NMR) is abundantly used in all petrochemical synthesis operations. 

IS the only phosphorus isotope present at natural abundance and has a nuclear spin of The H NMR spectrum of tnmethyl phosphite (CH30)3P exhibits a doublet for the methyl protons with a splitting of 12 Hz... 

For any one element, the abundances (relative amounts) of isotopes can be described in percentage terms. Thus, fluorine is monoisotopic viz., it contains only nuclei of atomic mass 19, and phosphorus has 100% abundance of atoms with atomic mass 31. For carbon, the first two isotopes occur in the proportions of 98.882 to 1.108. 

Phosphorus. Eighty-five percent of the phosphoms, the second most abundant element in the human body, is located in bones and teeth (24,35). Whereas there is constant exchange of calcium and phosphoms between bones and blood, there is very Httle turnover in teeth (25). The Ca P ratio in bones is constant at about 2 1. Every tissue and cell contains phosphoms, generally as a salt or ester of mono-, di-, or tribasic phosphoric acid, as phosphoHpids, or as phosphorylated sugars (24). Phosphoms is involved in a large number and wide variety of metaboHc functions. Examples are carbohydrate metaboHsm (36,37), adenosine triphosphate (ATP) from fatty acid metaboHsm (38), and oxidative phosphorylation (36,39). Common food sources rich in phosphoms are Hsted in Table 5 (see also Phosphorus compounds). 

NMR isotope measured. For example, for the detection of phosphorus by NMR in a sample containing 3 wt.% phosphorus, approximately 10 mg of sample are required. By contrast, the corresponding detection limit for Si in a similar situation is 22 dmes higher, due to the much lower natural abundance (4.7%) of the Si isotope. 

Phosphorus fin t discovered in a mineral by J. G. Gahn (pyroinorphitc, a lead phosphate) subsequently found in the much more abundant apatite by T. Bergman and J. L Proust. 

Phosphorus is the eleventh element in order of abundance in crustal rocks of the earth and it occurs there to the extent of 1120 ppm (cf. H 1520 ppm, Mn 1060 ppm). All its known terrestrial minerals are orthophosphates though the reduced phosphide mineral schrieber-site (Fe,Ni)3P occurs in most iron meteorites. Some 200 crystalline phosphate minerals have been described, but by far the major amount of P occurs in a single mineral family, the apatites, and these are the only ones of industrial importance, the others being rare curiosities. Apatites (p. 523) have the idealized general formula 3Ca3(P04)2.CaX2, that is Caio(P04)6X2, and common members are fluorapatite Ca5(P04)3p, chloroapatite Ca5(P04)3Cl, and hydroxyapatite Ca5(P04)3(0H). In addition, there are vast deposits of amorphous phosphate rock, phosphorite, which approximates in composition to fluoroapatite. " These deposits are widely... 

A photovoltaic cell (often called a solar cell) consists of layers of semiconductor materials with different electronic properties. In most of today s solar cells the semiconductor is silicon, an abundant element in the earth s crust. By doping (i.e., chemically introducing impurity elements) most of the silicon with boron to give it a positive or p-type electrical character, and doping a thin layer on the front of the cell with phosphorus to give it a negative or n-type character, a transition region between the two types... 

Phosphorus (eleventh most abundant element) occurs mostly as the phosphate anion, P04-3, in such minerals as phosphate rock, which is a... 

Phosphorus is the tenth most abundant element on Earth with an average crustal abundance of 0.1% and may be found in a wide variety of mineral phases. There are approximately 300 naturally occurring minerals in which PO4 is a required structural component. Phosphate may also be present as a trace component in many minerals either by the substitution of small quantities of POt into the crystal structure or by the adsorption of P04 onto the mineral surface (Nriagu and Moore, 1984 Slansky, 1986). 

Despite its relatively late discovery, phosphorus is the eleventh most abundant element in Earth s crustal rock. It has been estimated that world reserves of phosphate rock are sufficient to last for several hundred years. Virtually all phosphorus deposits contain apatite, whose general formula is Caj (P04)3 X, where X — OH, or Cl. Fluoroapatite is the least soluble, hence most abundant, of the three apatite minerals. Phosphorus Is found in aqueous systems as HPOq and H2 PO4 ions. In biological organisms, phosphorus is a component of nucleic acids and energy-shuttling molecules such as ATP. 

Since phosphorus and protons are both abundant spin-1/ nuclei, it is simple to design an experiment in which we correlate protons and phosphorus rather than protons with themselves. The result of this experiment, a P,H correlation, is shown in Fig. 26. Again we have the 2D spectrum in the form of a central rectangle and two (previously recorded) ID spectra parallel to the axes. One is the proton spectrum, the other the phosphorus spectrum. The latter of course consists of a single line, and in the 2D spectrum we do not need to look for a diagonal as there cannot be one. 

The series of molecules which has guided us through this book so far was chosen for a good reason it allowed us to discuss in detail the most important nuclei, the proton and carbon-13, while demonstrating the effect of a very important heteronucleus , phosphorus-31, on the spectra of the two key nuclei. In addition, we could discuss the NMR investigation of this heteronucleus, which exists in 100% natural abundance and has a spin of Vi> and in contrast of oxygen-17, a low-abundance nucleus with a spin greater than Vi. 

Fluorine-19, like phosphorus-31, is a spin-Vi nucleus with 100% natural abundance. The signals it produces are almost as strong as those of the proton, and the resonance frequency at a given field is also relatively close to that of the proton. Although for many years it was in fact necessary to have a special probehead for fluorine-19, those days have gone and fluorine has become a completely normal nucleus. 

Phosphorus is the other heteroatom of major coupling importance to the organic chemist. Like 19F,31P has a spin of V2 and a 100 % natural abundance, so you know what to expect The actual size of the couplings observed with 31P can vary considerably, depending on the oxidation state of the 31P atom. You ll find some useful examples in Table 6.3. 

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