Sentences with phrase «much nitrogen compounds»

You could argue [on] the climate change [one], but [on nutrient] pollution we have used so much [fertilizer] and so much nitrogen compounds are loose in the environment, it is hard to recognize our coastal oceans anymore; of the species that are gone [and] that kind of thing.

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Beijing has been battling an unwelcome, unrelenting and «very unhealthy» smog for many months, much of it made up of particulate nitrogen compounds suspended in the air.

Goodell points out that most microorganisms use enzymes to break down compounds, but enzymes are huge molecules and physiologically «expensive» to produce because they contain so much nitrogen.

One triple bond releases much more energy when it forms than is needed to break the three single bonds that bind the nitrogen in the starting compound.

It's not so much the heavy metals anymore but nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds that are causing distress.

Now, there's around four times as much nitrogen in the atmosphere as oxygen and since nitrogen in its diatomic form is difficult to break to form compounds, then it could be said to approximate to an ideal gas (elastic collisions not inelastic), and, oxygen and nitrogen don't combine in the atmosphere but mix, and, oxygen is practically the same weight as nitrogen, and, oxygen has practically the same heat capacity, then, not a bad approximation to the ideal gas of Jelbring's thought experiment.