white phosphorus is used in flares and explosives, so may be important in warfare, etc. Red phosphorus is used in matches (side of matches) and in fertilizers which are essential to growing plants. I don't know if that is economically important, but there are many ways that phosphorus benifit the economy. One downside on the economy is that phosphorus is one of the main ingredients in meth, which of course causes trouble for the economy ( law enforcement, medical, etc. )
Answer: Rate of decomposition of acetaldehyde in a solution is 
Explanation:
Rate law says that rate of a reaction is directly proportional to the concentration of the reactants each raised to a stoichiometric coefficient determined experimentally called as order.
For a reaction : 
![Rate=k[A]^x](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=Rate%3Dk%5BA%5D%5Ex)
k= rate constant
x = order of the reaction = 2
Thus rate of decomposition of acetaldehyde in a solution is
Answer:
a richter scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake so in my own words i would say the richter scale measures the size of an earthquake and letting us kniw how big it will be to prepare for it.
