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Article: Name that element! Which element on the periodic table helps brighten your smile, adds flavor to soda pop, and lights up your television? Follow these eight clues to find out. Then, turn the page to test your chemistry IQ.(OUR POPULAR MYSTERY SERIES RETURNS!)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- November 28, 2005
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DID YOU KNOW?
* Phosphorus is commonly found in fertilizers. And runoff of fertilizers from farms into rivers and lakes can cause harmful algal blooms. Algal blooms can decrease the amount of oxygen in a waterway, causing some marine life to suffocate.
CRITICAL THINKING:
* When excessive amounts of phosphorus leak into waterways, the effects on marine life could be deadly. What could be done to prevent this from happening?
CROSS-CURRICULAR CONNECTIONS:
MATH: A radioactive element is one with in unstable nucleus that decays over time. And half-life is the time it lakes for a radioactive substance to lose half its ...