The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance by Dan Egan

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Dan Egan

256 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction science informative medium-paced

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The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty--and now great peril--all over the world.Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it's also the...

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