Discovered by boiling down urine in search of gold, phosphorus glows in the dark and is written into every strand of your DNA.
- Atomic number
- 15
- Atomic mass
- 30.974 u
- Phase
- Solid
- Electron configuration
- [Ne] 3s² 3p³
- Melting point
- 317.3 K · 44.2 °C
- Boiling point
- 553.7 K · 280.6 °C
- Density
- 1.823 g/cm³
- Electronegativity
- 2.19
- Period / Group
- 3 / 15
- Discovery year
- 1669