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

by Dan Egan

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 key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has sustained life for billions of people. In this major work of explanatory science and environmental journalism, Pulitzer Prize finalist Dan Egan investigates the

Publisher

Scribe Publications

Publication date

2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

240

ISBN

9781324002666