Red phosphorus is one of the most common and widely used allotropes of the nonmetallic element, phosphorus. Find out its various uses through this Buzzle article.t is one of the several allotropes of phosphorus. Red phosphorus is made up of four tetrahedrally grouped phosphorus atoms. It is a hard crystalline solid that is insoluble in water and carbon disulphide. It can be obtained by heating white phosphorus to 250ÂºC.
This is your nail bed on cholecalciferol: my fingernails and vitamin D3. Further to my earlier post on supplements that helped to grow my fingernails, I can report that 15,000 IU of vitamin D3 a day for two weeks did amazing things. It basically did the same thing that 8 mg of methylfolate did, although the folate seemed to work faster.
Vitamin D is the name given to a group of fat-soluble prohormones (substances that usually have little hormonal activity by themselves but that the body can turn into hormones). Vitamin D helps the body use calcium and phosphorus to make strong bones and teeth. Skin exposed to sunshine can make vitamin D, and vitamin D can also be obtained from certain foods. Vitamin D deficiency can cause a weakening of the bones that is called rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. Two major forms of vitamin D that are important to humans are vitamin D2, or ergocalciferol, and vitamin D3, or cholecalciferol.