Phosphorus caged

Kenneth N. Raymond
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Kenneth N. Raymond: University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. raymond@socrates.berkeley.edu

Nature, 2009, vol. 460, issue 7255, 585-586

Abstract: Violent criminals are imprisoned to keep them under control. Similarly, incarceration in a molecular jail stops white phosphorus from bursting into flames — but on release, it regains its fiery character.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1038/460585a

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