With limited amounts of carbon available in the environment, it can lead to excessive
amounts of ammonium being emitted into the air and lead to urine - like smell.
As an added bonus, it is treated tiny
amounts of ammonium hydroxide to make it safer to eat.
Kraft Foods Inc, whose brands include Chips Ahoy cookies and Velveeta cheese, is one company that uses very small
amounts of ammonium compounds in some of its products.
Wiggins said that in turning milk to cheese, a tiny
amount of ammonium hydroxide is added to a starter dairy culture to reduce the culture's acidity and encourage cheese cultures to grow.
What the Beef Products process does is increase
the amount of ammonium hydroxide in the lean beef to elevate its overall pH and make the product inhospitable to the survival of pathogens, such as E. coli and salmonella.
Very early in the cheese - making process, a tiny
amount of ammonium hydroxide can be added to reduce acidity or encourage cultures to grow.
An additional advantage of anammox bacteria, compared to conventional wastewater treatment, is that they convert a larger
amount of ammonium to nitrogen gas.
Not exact matches
Also, at the original level
of ammonium hydroxide used, LBT had a distinct (and disagreeable) taste, and my guess here is that they kept the
amount of it used per beef patty down to a level meant to minimize that taste.
Ammonium urate calculi are not usually visible on survey radiographs unless they also contain substantial
amounts of magnesium and phosphate.
While biomass burning is implicated for the Younger Dryas increase (e.g., Firestone et al., 2007), the
amount of burning during the Tunguska event is too small to account for the
ammonium increase
of > 200 ppb (Melott et al., 2010).