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Phosagro is a Russian company producing fertilizer, phosphates and feed phosphates. Its subsidiaries include Apatit, a company that was in the middle of accusations against Yukos' chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev. Spreading manure, an organic fertilizer Fertilizers (British English fertilisers) are compounds given to plants to promote growth; they are usually applied either via the soil, for uptake by plant roots, or by foliar feeding, for uptake through leaves. ... Yukos Oil Company (ОАО НК ЮКОС) is a petroleum company in Russia which, until recently, was controlled by Russian billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a number of prominent Russian businessmen. ... The quality of this article or section may be compromised by peacock terms. You can help Wikipedia by removing peacock terms. ... Lebedev Platon Leonidovich (Russian: Лебедев Платон Леонидович) is a former CEO of Group Menatep, and is best known as the business partner of the embattled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. ...


Subsidiaries

  • Apatit
  • Ammophos
  • Cherepovetsky Azot
  • BMU (Balakovskyie Mineralnyie Udobrenia)
  • PhosAgro-Trans

External Links

  • Official Website

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APATITE (Calcium (Fluoro-, Chloro-, Hydroxyl-) Phosphate) (338 words)
Apatite is actually three different minerals depending on the predominance of either fluorine, chlorine or the hydroxyl group.
An irony of the name apatite is that apatite is the mineral that makes up the teeth in all vertebrate animals as well as their bones.
Apatite is widely distributed in all rock types; igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic, but is usually just small disseminated grains or cryptocrystalline fragments.
Apatite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (197 words)
Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite, fluorapatite, and chlorapatite, named for high concentrations of OH
Apatite is one of few minerals that are produced and used by biological systems.
Fission tracks in apatite are commonly used to determine the thermal history of orogenic (mountain) belts and of sediments in sedimentary basins.
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