Prime ideal need not contain any prime element

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Statement

It is possible to have an integral domain R and a nonzero prime ideal P of R such that P does not contain any prime element of R.

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Proof

For an example, we can take any Dedekind domain that is not a principal ideal domain, and pick a prime ideal in the Dedekind domain that is not principal. A concrete example is:

R=Z[5],P=(2,1+5).