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The Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries' Garden in London, England, in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries to grow plants to be used as medicines. [1] This four acre physic garden , the term here referring to the science of healing, is among the oldest botanical gardens in Britain, after the University of Oxford ...
The earliest European records noting the use of guano as fertilizer date back to 1548. [10] Although the first shipments of guano reached Spain as early as 1700, it did not become a popular product in Europe until the 19th century. [11]
The formal garden à la française, exemplified by the Gardens of Versailles, became the dominant horticultural style in Europe until the middle of the 18th century, when the English landscape garden and the French landscape garden acceded to dominance. In the 19th century, a welter of historical revivals and Romantic cottage-inspired gardening ...
The use of wood ash as a field treatment became widespread. [4] In the Andes, they used guano for at least 1500 years, before the European countries started importing it in the 19th century for their increasing demands due to the industrial revolution.
He was the first to use phosphorus to ignite sulfur-tipped wooden splints, forerunners of modern matches, [17] and also improved the process by using sand in the reaction: 4 NaPO 3 + 2 SiO 2 + 10 C → 2 Na 2 SiO 3 + 10 CO + P 4. Boyle's assistant Ambrose Godfrey-Hanckwitz later made a business of the manufacture of phosphorus.
The Pentagon recommended providing the white phosphorus shells to Ukraine as part of several aid packages, including a recent one, as a Presidential Drawdown Authority, according to the officials.
Phosphorus, which still remains in phosphogypsum, can lead to eutrophication of bodies of water and hence algal blooms or even anoxic events ("dead zones") in the lower layers of a body of water. The total amount of phosphogypsum in storage by 2020 exceeds 600 Mt, with 75 Mt produced each year.
People exposed to white phosphorus can suffer severe and sometimes deadly bone-deep burns. It can cause organs to shut down, and burns on just 10% of the body can be fatal, HRW said.