Phosphorus will sometime be referred to as phosphate. Deficiency Symptoms are never seen because Phosphorus is found in so many foods - all of the meat group, all of the cereal products, and all milk products.
Storage is in bone.
Drinking carbonated beverages instead of milk at a meal gives your bones a double whammy - they don't get the calcium they should be getting from the milk and the phosphoric acid in the beverage may be causing excretion of calcium.