{"id":2480,"date":"2023-02-23T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T04:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:23:13","slug":"what-is-phosphor-gypsum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-phosphor-gypsum\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Phosphor-Gypsum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Phosphor-Gypsum:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Phosphorus is a mineral critical to all life on Earth. As a requirement of all biological beings, it is a cornerstone of nutrition for plants, animals, and people.<\/li>\n<li>Phosphogypsum is a waste by-product from the processing of phosphate rock in plants producing phosphoric acid and phosphate fertilizers, such as superphosphate.<\/li>\n<li>It is used in <strong>agriculture for soil amendment or as fertilizer<\/strong>, as well as in the brick and cement industry, and road construction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about NHAI<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was constituted by an <strong>Act of Parliament in 1988<\/strong> under the administrative control of <strong>the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>NHAI has been set up as a Central Authority to <strong>develop, maintain and manage the National Highways<\/strong> entrusted to it by the Government of India.<\/li>\n<li>The Authority consists of a full-time Chairman and not more than five full-time Members and four part-time Members who are appointed by the Central Government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Gypsum?<\/h3>\n<p>Gypsum is a mineral found in crystals as well as masses called gypsum rock. It is a very soft mineral and it can form very pretty, and sometimes extremely large.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1901441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>\u00a0NHAI to Explore Use of Phosphor-Gypsum in National Highway Construction<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phosphogypsum is a waste by-product produced in the production of phosphoric acid and phosphate fertilizers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}