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bone ash

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ash left when bones burn; high in calcium phosphate; used as fertilizer and in bone china

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In 1769 Johan Gottlieb Gahn and Carl Wilhelm Scheele showed that calcium phosphate ( Camain (POmain )main ) is found in bones, and they obtained elemental phosphorus from bone ash. Source: Internet

This used bone ash for a phosphate source, as described above. Source: Internet

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