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The 13 pages that link to Phosphate rock, each with the reason it gives.

• Phosphoric acidRelated: It is the principal raw material for large-scale wet-process phosphoric acid.

• ApatiteRelated: Apatite supplies most of the phosphorus in economically mined phosphate rock.

• Contact processRelated: Its treatment with sulfuric acid links the process to phosphorus supply.

• Phosphate fertilizerRelated: Most commercial phosphate fertilizers begin with mined phosphate rock.

• White phosphorusRelated: Phosphate rock is the principal industrial feedstock from which elemental phosphorus is produced.

• FluorapatiteRelated: Fluorapatite is a common phosphate-bearing mineral in many phosphate deposits.

• Phosphate mineralRelated: Mined phosphate rock is the principal raw material for most phosphate fertilizers.

• Sechura DesertRelated: Sechura’s phosphate deposits make this resource central to regional industry.

• History of fertilizerRelated: Mining this finite resource underlies much modern phosphorus fertilization.

• NauruRelated: Its deposits made Nauru a major exporter before reserves were largely depleted.