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Synonyms:
- carbon, cesium, oxygen, manganese, einsteinium, germanium, element, iodine, aluminum, europium, mercury, hafnium, ruthenium, americium, curium, neodymium, helium, radon, vanadium, mendelevium, scandium, plutonium, antimony, sodium, platinum, fluorine, gallium, daystar, zinc, ytterbium, caesium, selenium, palladium, potassium, hydrogen, uranium, dysprosium, match, nobelium, barium, iron, silver, nitrogen, calcium, boron, beryllium, thallium, nickel, strontium, chlorine, actinium, tin, titanium, holmium, cobalt, niobium, berkelium, fermium, gold, osmium, krypton, francium, neptunium, praseodymium, lead, brimstone, alkali metal, sulfur, chromium, promethium, gadolinium, polonium, tellurium, copper, thorium, lutetium, tantalum, magnesium, terbium, metal, neon, P, lanthanum, morning star, molybdenum, erbium, friction match, rhodium, yttrium, rhenium, samarium, xenon, thulium, rubidium, iridium, lithium, tungsten, cadmium, bromine, astatine, silicon, technetium, cerium, atomic number 15, protactinium, arsenic, indium, the Tempter, radium, zirconium, californium, argon, bismuth
Examples:
- - For instance, to take a few examples from the late Mr. Hilton Price's lists of " Signs of Old London" from Cheapside and adjacent streets, in 1695 John Arundell, tobacconist, was at the " White Horse," Wood Street; in the same year J. Mumford, tobacconist, was at the " Faulcon," Laurence Lane; in 1699 Mr. Brutton, tobacconist, was to be found at the " Three Crowns," under the Royal Exchange; in 1702 Richard Bronas, tobacconist, was at the " Horse Shoe," Bread Street; and in 1766 Mr. Hoppie, of the " Oil Jar: Old Change, Watling Street End," advertised that he " sold a newly invented phosphorus powder for lighting pipes quickly in about half a minute. - "The Social History of Smoking", G. L. Apperson
- - No man can be brave without blood to sustain his courage, any more than he can think, as the German materialist says, not absurdly, without phosphorus. - "A Mortal Antipathy", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- - The first suggestion was phosphorus, in the chemist's sense of the word. - "The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles", Jean Henri Fabre
