Garlic also contains vitamin C, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, selenium and some key amino acids.
Phosphorus bombs often are used for smoke screens and become luminous in the dark, GlobalSecurity.org says.
Agribusiness farming operations are notorious for nitrogen and phosphorus runoff (particularly from poultry and hog farms).
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Under normal circumstances, choppy waters might have diluted the phosphorus and broken up the bloom.
All life forms on earth use six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur.
Wisconsin is one of the few states to introduce, in 2010, statewide numerical limits for phosphorus.
Another idea is a low-tech effort to extract phosphorus by using crops which are then harvested.
The kidney isn't able to regulate the amount of salt, water, calcium and phosphorus in the body.
The EOD troop, by way of a controlled explosion, disposed of a quantity of WWII phosphorus grenades.
"Phosphorus burns on the skin are deep and painful, " according to GlobalSecurity.org, a military research website.
But significant cuts in Lake Erie's phosphorus levels could be achieved with different fertilizing techniques, the scientists said.
Currently, Loch Fitty is classed as having a "poor ecological status", largely due to excess levels of phosphorus.
Helium (used to cool superconducting magnets in hospital MRI scanners) and phosphorus (in agricultural fertilizers) are also under threat.
"Simply put, we have to reduce phosphorus inputs into the lake, " he said.
After some sleuthing Mitsch found Monsanto's secret weapon: a phosphorus mine in Idaho.
The Israeli military says it is to stop using artillery shells with white phosphorus to create smokescreens on the battlefield.
Together, they leave huge volumes of phosphorus where it can be easily washed into streams and eventually, into Lake Erie.
The only way to increase yield was to find a way of supplying extra nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to the soil.
The Israeli military said the existing shells contained "minimal amounts" of white phosphorus, and would be "removed from active duty soon".
Environmentalists say that half the streams in the upper Mississippi have too much nitrogen and a quarter have too much phosphorus.
British entrepreneurs scoured the old battlefields of Europe searching for phosphorus-rich bones.
In Maryland, scientists estimate that the change on the household dishwasher front will reduce phosphorus pollution to the Chesapeake Bay by 3%.
Three years ago, Israel promised to draw up new rules on the use of shells containing white phosphorus, in the wake of the Gaza war.
But in Mono Lake in California, Wolfe-Simon and her colleagues had found a type of bacteria, GFAJ-1, that seemed to have replaced phosphorus with arsenic.
White phosphorus is highly flammable and ignites on contact with oxygen.
Phosphorus is filtered out and stored for use as a fertilizer.
The building blocks of algae blooms, particularly phosphorus, are well known.
Saltwater fish also contain minerals, including iron, iodine, phosphorus, and selenium.
In 2011 alone, these programs prevented 3.4 million pounds of nitrogen and 97, 000 pounds of phosphorus from flowing off of farms and into lakes and rivers.
For decades, discharges by wastewater treatment plants and land runoff have led to excessive levels of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus in Long Island Sound.
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