Of all the crap they allow to be put in our food this seems like a ridiculous battle to be fighting. Ban bleached flour. Ban phosphates. Ban any other thing that the EU and Japan and much of the world don’t allow. These people do not care about us.

another reason florida is a better place to ride it out than the west coast tbh boy do we got phosphates

I wonder how far it runs before it is polluted by one thing or another. Even farmed land pollutes rivers with phosphates and other chemicals.🤷‍♂️

An interesting award lecture also by the second winner of the Förderpreis of @gdchbiochem.bsky.social#GDChBioChem2024pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Group I salts are soluble! Hydroxide salts are insoluble! OK, what about Group I hydroxide salts? Those are soluble. Ok what about phosphates? Insoluble. And sodium phosphate? I WROTE THEM IN ORDER OK?

It's great that the rural communities of NZ came out so strongly against 3 Waters as soon as it was obvious that the numerous problems with nitrates and phosphates in our waterways, caused by years of farming practices, meant that we were going to have to actually address those causes. Karma?

One of the things that was becoming obvious as the Three Waters programme got closer, was that it would become very, very clear to everyone in NZ why there was so much water degradation due to nitrates and phosphates - and where the blame would lie. Hence, Rural NZs new enthusiasm: Stop 3 Waters!

You're welcome! If I'm being complete, our saliva also does this with phosphates and fluoride. It's not just calcium. I always kind of botch the chemistry because it's an easier story to tell patients. They get calcium. Phosphates and hydroxyl groups make them zone out.

Bennu: still early, based on OSIRIS-REx return one year ago, but... broadly similar to Haya2 samples, and phosphates like you wouldn't believe. One potential fluid inclusion still TBC.