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James Vincent: Planet Phosphorus, 14 August 2025

White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus – in Our Cells, in Our Food and in Our World 
by Jack Lohmann.
Oneworld, 288 pp., £18.99, April, 978 1 83643 087 2
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... on both individual and planetary scales. It is these phosphorus cycles that are the focus of Jack Lohmann’s White Light, a history of the element’s role in the intertwined systems of biology, geology and agriculture. In these networks, living matter is merely an intermediary, transporting phosphorus from one location to another. Biological ...

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