I once had a summer job at a phosphate chemical plant in Florida. Nastiest job I ever had, but I could get all the overtime I wanted and the pay was great. Being broke, and 18 I ignored the fact that exposure to all the chemicals and radio-active phosphate rock, maybe it had something to do with getting cancer in my 50’s.

So first you strip mine the earth for the raw phosphate rock; using tons of water from big wells sunk deep into the Florida aquifer, then you expose workers to radio active dust, it called brown lung in Florida, the flare off the excess sulfuric acid into the atmosphere; this is why car paint does not last in central Florida, and all the energy needed to run the chemical plants are supplied by coal fired electric plants that spews acid rain heavy metals into the air.

Any way you take radio-active phosphate rock, grind it into powder the mix it with pure sulfuric acid then evaporate the excess acid off in an evaporator, you are left with phosphoric acid and lots of pure phosphate to sell to the middle east. What you say, why so much phosphate to the middle east. Well you mix the phosphate with another Ag chemical, urea, and Voila, you have a bomb.

I don’t drink anything with phosphoric acid for my personal health and the health of the planet.

OrganicGeorge, phosphoric acid and urea does not amount to something even close to a bomb.. Also, phosphorite, the mineral rock containing 20% phosphate is not radioactive. At least get an education before you preach bullshit.

I would like to point out that the chemist comes at this from a perspective of a chemist rather than that of a geologist…. Florida’s phosphate deposits have naturally high amounts of trace uranium present.

I m’ suprised that people still do not make difference between phosphate, phosphoric acid and phosphorus !!
Coke and soda drink contient phosphoric acid!! that will harm your digestif tract !

@youssef
you’ve never won a spelling bee have you?

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