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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please, in regard to phosphate mining and how it is affecting the
environment in the Gulf of Mexico, specifically, the west coast of
Florida and Louisianna: When the uses of phosphate are mentioned
"they" always say they use it for fertilizer and "other" uses.... Don't those "other" uses include explosives and neuclear weapons? Is
that the real reason WHY the powers that be allow the descruction of
our beautiful coast, land, water supply and contaminate the air? I
read an article in the Carnegie Report that said last month over 20
tons of phosphate was delivered to North Korea! Would a scientic
expert, please, care to post a comment? As is the case with petroleum
is phosphate also more about.... follow the money?
Thank you.
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/phosphate_rock/540303.pdf
"More than 95% of the
U.S. phosphate rock ore mined was used to manufacture wet-process phosphoric acid and superphosphoric acid,
which were used as intermediates in the manufacture of granular and liquid ammonium phosphate fertilizers and
animal feed supplements. More than 50% of the wet-process phosphoric acid produced was exported in the form of
upgraded granular diammonium and monoammonium phosphate (DAP and MAP, respectively) fertilizer, triple
superphosphate fertilizer, and merchant-grade phosphoric acid. The balance of the phosphate rock mined was used
to manufacture elemental phosphorus, which was used to produce high-purity phosphoric acid and phosphorus
compounds for use in a variety of industrial and food-additive applications."
http://chandrasekaran.tripod.com/uses.html http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/2001/Sep/abs1184_1.html
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