Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ...

Nitrogen gas makes up 78% of Earth’s atmosphere and is an essential element in amino acids and proteins. However, plants and animals cannot use nitrogen gas directly. Root hair cells have a long ...

The process recycles organic nitrogen into inorganic nitrogen by oxidizing it. This oxidation, as one of the central processes of the nitrogen cycle, is called nitrification. It is a two-step process ...

The Nitrogen Cycle Let’s begin our discussion of the N cycle in a typical grain crop rotation ... nitrate can be converted to a gas by microbes and lost to the atmosphere through a process called ...

Industries use the Haber-Bosch process to reduce nitrogen essentially ... Overuse of these chemical fertilizers has led to an upset in the nitrogen cycle and consequently to surface water as ...

A new electrochemical technique published in the journal Nature Catalysis now proposes to separate urea from urine in its solid form via a greener, less energy-consuming process. This method converts ...

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Ocean acidification in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters reduces primary production by about 10%, impacting the global carbon cycle. Eukaryotic phytoplankton decline under high CO 2 ...