More sustainable epoxy thanks to phosphorus

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• HardCodedBias 7 minutes ago
  when I hear of industrial uses of phosphorus my ears prick up since phosphorus is a key limiting factor for life.

  A world where this actually became industrially very successful combined with a lack of recycling could potentially add large new sink for phosphorus.

  In general, be careful when creating a process which locks meaningful amount of phosphorus out of the biosphere.
• pfdietz 1 hour ago
  This looks like recycling fetishism. It's perfectly fine to burn such materials, if they were obtained from non-fossil sources to start with, so there would be no net CO2 addition to the atmosphere.
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  • westurner 46 minutes ago
    An adjacent design validation question on a green chip factory and product design:

    Will Phytic acid in Lignin-Vitrimer encase burning CNT carbon nanotubes in a phosphorous char cage, this preventing health hazards and combustion?

    This says "phosphorous epoxy".

    FR4 silicon PCBs are N-doped and P-doped.