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Why is phosphorus concentrated in living organisms rather than the lithosphere, aesthenosphere, crust, mantle, core?
Phosphorus forms phosphate esters, anhydrides, and phosphoramidic acids that can release energy when hydrolysed yet are slow to hydrolyse or decompose without catalysis. Therefore, they are very ...
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