Sentences with phrase «makes fertilizer using»

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Chemical and fertilizer companies, which use gas as both a feedstock and energy source, say lower prices have reduced costs and made the U.S. a more competitive manufacturing location.

Natural gas is an ingredient used to make fertilizer, antifreeze, plastics, pharmaceuticals, fabrics and a wide range of chemicals.

The difference is currently being made up with fertilizers made from oil production that eventually kill the land on which they are used.

At one point I heard them discuss how they could make a bomb using garden fertilizer for nitrogen, cellulose and battery acid.

Seventy - percent of the pea is made into vermicelli noodles for the Asian market while the fiber (10 %) is used to grow mushrooms and then recycled as fertilizer.

Organic Certification guarantees that No pesticides, chemicals or artificial fertilizers are used in the growing, production, packaging and storage of the oil, making it a truly pristine and healthy product.

** • If made with fruits and vegetables, they are grown entirely without the use of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and synthetic fertilizers.

The ban on soluble and purchased fertilizers makes nutrient - conserving crop rotations and the sparing use of organic fertilizers to reduce losses, economically worthwhile.

According to the International Fertilizer Industry Association, 97 per cent of the world's N fertiliser is made using natural gas as the energy source.

• Made with at least one ingredient (besides water) that is grown without the use of synthetic inputs, including pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers.

By using organically grown ingredients, we help keep highly toxic, persistent harmful pesticides and synthetic fertilizers out of the environment and our bodies, making organic farming and agriculture good for people and the planet.

These beige bloomies are neither bleached nor dyed, and are made from cotton grown without the use of fertilizers or pesticides.

Melamine has been a concern for parents in recent years — also known as cyanuramide, this synthetic chemical is used to make resins for cooking utensils, etc. and has also been used to make fertilizers, paper, paperboard, and flame retardants.

This means that the cotton is grown and harvested without the use of pesticides or man - made fertilizers.

The only way a product can be labeled as absolutely organic is if all the materials used to make that product were derived, grown, or raised without the use of any chemicals, hormones, pesticides, or fertilizers whatsoever.

We recycle, use cloth diapers, menstrual cup and mama cloth, only cloth to clean (no paper towels) essential oils to make cleaners, we used to compost, but we never got it «right», we garden and plant bee friendly flowers, no chemicals in our fertilizers.

Organic fabrics like organic cotton is made without the use of harmful things like pesticides, chemicals and fertilizers etc. and hence is a good choice.

So that you can use it to make composite and it can serve as fertilizer, instead of the artificial forms of fertilizer.

The best lawn fertilizer spreader will be able to make quick use of both and benefit your yard.

If tobacco growers are using fertilizer on their plants, it obviously works, even though it is made from uranium - rich phosphate rock and results in polonium 210 — a decay product of uranium — being inhaled with cigarette smoke.

Repeated use of bulk fertilizers and chemicals over the years have depleted the soils and caused other environmental damage, creating a vicious cycle that makes the current model of industrial agriculture potentially unsustainable — and increasingly expensive as more and more chemical and bulk salt - based fertilizer additives are required each year.

To demonstrate one potential use of the nanoparticles, the research team used them as advanced catalysts for ammonia oxidation, which is a key step in the production of nitric acid (a liquid acid that is used in the production of ammonium nitrate for fertilizers, making plastics, and in the manufacturing of dyes).

It's true that conventional baby clothing and bedding — conventional referring to that made with cotton grown using synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and bleached and dyed with yet more harsh chemicals — hasn't seemed to present a problem thus far for generations and generations of babies.

Finally, Kaiser said that farmers who do decide to use in - furrow starter fertilizers should make sure that they complement any broadcast fertilizers that they use.

There's also interest in using metal catalysts to convert carbon dioxide into fuels, make fertilizers from atmospheric nitrogen and drive reactions in fuel - cell cars.

Heat might be expected to harm a crop (or force farms to move poleward), but added carbon dioxide, which all plants use to make organic matter, might act as a fertilizer.

Naturally providing nutrients and boosting drought resistance could make it easier and more environmentally friendly to grow grain and vegetable crops, fruit and nut trees, and even keep golf courses looking lush and green without using excess amounts of water and chemical fertilizer.

Biologically available nitrogen for agricultural fertilizer has been made since 1906 using the Haber - Bosch process.

As for the fuel, more than 45 million metric tons (45 billion kilograms) of the lightweight gas is produced every year as part of making fertilizer, chemicals and the gasoline used to power cars today.

A new study suggests that in carbon - dioxide - rich environments, plants given the nitrate fertilizers widely used today will grow slower and make less protein than plants fertilized with ammonium.

By using fish excretions to feed plants, «you don't have to buy all these fertilizers that are made from petroleum products and that take energy» to produce and transport, says agricultural scientist James Rakocy of the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI), a longtime proponent of aquaponics who has a demonstration facility at his institution.

Small amounts of the silvery grey metal are used to speed up or «catalyze» a number of key industrial processes, including those that make drugs, detergents and nitrogen fertilizer, and they even play a major role breaking down toxic pollutants in the catalytic converters of our cars.

The new crop strains were dependent on mechanization, controlled irrigation, and artificial, petroleum - based fertilizers for their astonishing productivity, making it hard for small farmers to compete and dramatically increasing the use of pesticides.

Making matters worse, many farmers, particularly those in Africa, struggle to obtain the best seeds, fertilizers and fungicides, as well as training in their use.

In particular, it can be a feedstock to make ammonia and urea, which are used to manufacture fertilizer.

For decades the Chinese mined a phosphorus - rich layer of rock that winds through the hillsides of Guizhou Province and used it to make fertilizer for rice paddies.

Practically every scientist uses statistics — from pharmacologists employing regression to understand the relation between the dose of a drug and its effects in the body, to agronomists using analysis of variance to test which fertilizer makes crops grow fastest.

The bacteria harvest H2 from their PHB store and use their nitrogenase to combine it with nitrogen from the air to make ammonia, the starting material for fertilizer.

The organic food movement eschews the use of artificial fertilizers, yet we can never forget a simple fact; nitrogen fertilizers were made possible by the Haber - Bosch process, a method literally of turning air into bread, which by some estimates kept a fifth of the world's population alive [4].

The bacterium makes the soybean more productive — and without the use of chemical fertilizers, which can be expensive and contaminate groundwater.

The most recent breakthrough was made by a team of British and American biologists who report they've successfully infused tobacco plants with bacterial genes — a first step towards engineering crops that grow faster, offer higher yields and use less fertilizers.

It is used to make food and applied to farm fields as a fertilizer.

Using CRISPR, researchers can select hardier wild rice varieties that require less fertilizer or have a natural pest resistance, and turn off the one «seed shattering» gene that has made them undesirable to growers.

Currently, fertilizer is made using natural gas (steam reforming of methane to generate hydrogen to feed into the Haber process)-- but with the new advances (http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/07/researchers-at.html), it should be possible to generate that hydrogen directly from water using sunlight; feed the hydrogen into the Haber process (energy expensive, true, but doable), and then you have your ammonia, convert half of that to nitrate, and there you have your ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which currently accounts for about 1/2 of all agricultral fossil fuel use.

There is no provision to make up for lack of minerals in the soil other than the NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium) chemical fertilizers which are liberally used.

Kiwi vines are sensitive to chloride, so make sure to avoid fertilizer that uses that has potassium chloride (KCl) in it.

For non-organic food, it is not uncommon to use recycled industrial waste, from steel mill and the like, which contain lead and other heavy metals, to make fertilizer.

The shells of the Moringa seeds make a great organic fertilizer, and the seed remains after oil extraction can be used as a flocculant for water purification, fertilizer, and even animal feed.

Making the best choice for you: Choose Organic: Non-organic chocolate production uses pesticides and fertilizers which damage the soil and pollutes our water.

The leading explanation is that certain fertilizers approved for use only on conventional farms somehow make cadmium more available to plant roots.