Sentences with phrase «convert nitrogen gas»

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Some of the nitrogen the crops do not absorb is converted into nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

With the help of bacteria in the soil, peas and other pulse crops are able to take nitrogen gas from the air and convert it into more complex and usable forms.

Back at Princeton, Ward suspected that both processes were necessary, with denitrification churning out the ammonium that anammox then converted to nitrogen gas.

Secondly, nitrogen can be converted to nitrous oxide, which is an extremely potent greenhouse gas.

The key is a recently discovered type of bacterium that converts ammonium directly into nitrogen gas (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1185941).

An additional advantage of anammox bacteria, compared to conventional wastewater treatment, is that they convert a larger amount of ammonium to nitrogen gas.

Such wetlands naturally convert the runoff into nitrogen gas that is released into the atmosphere.

Scientists have converted a gentle flow of gas directly into an electric current by flowing common gases like oxygen, nitrogen, or argon over a special kind of semiconductor.

«A bioreactor containing anaerobic methane and ammonium oxidizing microorganisms can be used to simultaneously convert ammonium, methane and oxidized nitrogen in wastewater into harmless nitrogen gas and carbon dioxide, which has much lower global warming potential.»

(Industrial sectors such as oil and gas production don't emit ozone directly; rather, they emit compounds — such as nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds — that get converted to ozone in the atmosphere.)

On the exhaust side, many trucks and tractors use some of the diesel fuel to convert NOx back into nitrogen gas.

At the same time, the burning of ever - increasing quantities of coal, oil and natural gas converts some atmospheric nitrogen into oxides of nitrogen (NOx).

: Green peas are a very environmentally friendly food due to their ability to take nitrogen gas in the air and convert it to usable forms.

Bonus: Green peas are a very environmentally friendly food due to their ability to take nitrogen gas in the air and convert it to usable forms.

Our interventions convert greenhouse gas (GHG) sources into long - term sustainable sinks of sequestered carbon, and mitigate greenhouse gas and nitrogen.

Usually contains platinum, palladium and / or rhodium, which acts as a catalyst in a chemical reaction that converts unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen into water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases that are less toxic than untreated exhaust fumes

Catalytic Converter - Carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides are converted into water vapor and less harmful gases.

- Carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides are converted into water vapor and less harmful gases.

Then large volumes of nitrogen will be released in to atmosphere, where natrual processes such as ligtening will convert nitrogen in to nitogen oxide gases, an almost 200 + times more poten greenhouse gas than CO2.

Almost immediately (nanoseconds) they relax from their excited state by either 1) emitting that energy as a new photon, some of which will continue up towards space, some of which will go back downward to be reabsorbed, thus keeping the energy in the atmosphere longer, or 2) by colliding with another gas molecule, most likely an O2 (oxygen) or N2 (nitrogen) molecule since they make up over 98 % of the atmosphere, thereby converting the extra vibrational energy into kinetic energy by transferring it to the other gas molecule, which will then collide with other molecules, and so on, making the air warmer.

Our paper on the nitrogen cycle shows, as an example, how human ingenuity, by inventing an artificial «enzyme» that can convert the abundant gas, N2, into ammonium, changed the cycle for that element.

More nitrogen is now converted into reactive forms by industry than all by all the planet's natural processes and our industrial and agricultural processes are causing a continual build - up of long - lived greenhouse gases to levels unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years and possibly much longer.

This natural process replaces the need to add nitrogen fertilizers, which converts into nitrous oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas.