Sentences with phrase «apart nitrogen compounds»
NOx gases are produced in oxygen - poor soils when microbes break apart nitrogen compounds in the fertilizer, a process called denitrification.
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Some microbes have evolved proteins called nitrogenases that can split apart nitrogen molecules in the air and weld that nitrogen to hydrogen to make ammonia and other compounds that plants can absorb to get their nitrogen.