Sentences with phrase «anhydrous ammonia in»

He stopped using synthetic insecticides and anhydrous ammonia in 1969, and in 1988 began the transition to certified organic, which was completed in 1996.

Not exact matches

But ammonia plants also produce anhydrous ammonia, ammonium nitrate (the compound that caused last week's explosion in Texas), ammonium sulfate, UAN (urea ammonium nitrate solution) and other forms of ammonia used in agricultural and industrial applications — none of which use the leftover CO2.

Barring any criminal involvement, in which case all bets are off, the two most likely culprits in the blast are anhydrous ammonia and ammonium nitrate.

Anhydrous ammonia is a gas that can cause severe burns when it comes in contact with human skin, Richard Ferguson, professor of soil science at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln told TechNewsDaily.

If you heard about the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas last month, you know the devastation anhydrous ammonia can wreak.

An earlier study in Iowa concluded that part of the reason for the high emissions from anhydrous ammonia arose from application as a concentrated band creating alkaline conditions in the soil band.

When I was in grade school the local coop bought trucks to deliver anhydrous ammonia, one of the opening salvos of the green revolution.

Advising the lenders on the $ 1.5 bn project financing of the design, construction, operation and maintenance of an anhydrous ammonia plant in Mexico, the largest in Latin America.

Popular personal lubricant Astroglide was, as its name implies, invented in relation to the space program; it was discovered by a chemist looking for a substance that would purge oil from the anhydrous ammonia used in the space shuttle's cooling system.