Sentences with phrase «much phosphorus»

For instance, egg yolks have 16 times as much phosphorus per gram of protein as do egg whites.

Because bone meal contains as much phosphorus as calcium, I now recommend a plain calcium supplement instead of bone meal; there is enough phosphorus and magnesium in meat to balance it.

As long as there isn't too much Phosphorus to irritate her kidneys, I will continue to feed this to her.

(ref) When there is too much phosphorus present in your pet's blood, it is the kidneys job to excrete it into the urine to keep things in balance (homeostasis).

Too much phosphorus creates an imbalance of the two minerals, so the kidneys must excrete just enough phosphorus to maintain a healthy phosphorus - to - calcium ratio.

Too much phosphorus can also put added stress on the kidneys.

Legume - based (alfalfa) feed puts a strain on aging kidneys to excrete excess calcium, while bran mashes add too much phosphorus to the diet.

Too much phosphorus and too little calcium result in bone loss and contribute to osteoporosis.

You would be interested to know that while you would have to eat 7 1/2 pounds of potatoes or 11 pounds of beets or 9 1/2 pounds of carrots to get the daily phosphorus requirement, all of which would provide too high a number of calories, you would obtain as much phosphorus from 1 pound of lentils.

Also, too much phosphorus may make your skin itch.

If you have too much phosphorus in your blood, it pulls calcium from your bones.

Too much phosphorus is generally caused by kidney disease or by consuming too much dietary phosphorus and not enough dietary calcium.

Ecologists have estimated that the Amazon needs twice as much phosphorus as comes out of its bedrock.

She also tested how much phosphorus remained in each glass of water.

To figure out just how much phosphorus to add, Julia used a test kit from her local pet store.

* Because it is not clear how much phosphorus was used to grow the bacteria in the original paper, its authors could argue that Redfield's cells were not sufficiently phosphorus - starved to be forced to use arsenic in its place.

And they reckon that only a quarter as much phosphorus makes it to surface waters today compared with the past.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

They then used that data to extrapolate how much phosphorus was likely being released from the entire Greenland ice sheet.

They then used this estimate to calculate how much phosphorus gets deposited in the Amazon basin.

For the first time, scientists have an accurate estimate of how much phosphorus makes this trans - Atlantic journey.

However, how much phosphorus makes it from the meltwater into the open oceans is not yet known.

By comparing rock samples from those sources with the depleted ash, the team was able to calculate how much phosphorus, iron and silica were missing.

Even though rock type may be used to help predict the amount of mineral phosphorus in soils, it does not predict how much phosphorus is available to organisms.

While it's true that too much phosphorus can lead to imbalance in your body's pH that then depletes your body of calcium, there's not that much phosphorus in nutritional yeast to make this a concern.

Not exact matches

It's packed with micronutrients as well and fulfills much of your daily magnesium, manganese and phosphorus requirements (10).

There was so much to choose from, the Cranberry and Pumpkin Cob is appealing because of the fruit content and Pumpkin seeds (Pumpkin seeds are rich in Manganese Phosphorus, Magnesium and Copper plus a source of Zinc and iron).

Changes in nutrient mixture also helps to restrict plant size: if a chile is making too much foliage, I cut back nitrogen and increase phosphorus.

Having so much water might also slow or halt the movement of building blocks of life, such as carbon and phosphorus (the backbone of DNA), into oceans.

WPL is an index of how much water a basin needs to dilute incoming phosphorus relative to how much water the basin receives.

To assess the influence of phosphorus on nitrogen removal, the researchers used a comparative approach — they examined the differences between how much nitrogen goes into lakes and how much comes out downstream — coupled with time - series analyses of nitrogen and phosphorus concentration in large lakes.

«The most basic change was from very limited phosphorus availability to much higher phosphorus availability in surface waters of the ocean,» Reinhard said.

Now, researchers have estimated how much fertiliser, in the form of iron and phosphorus, is in the dust.

Nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients occur naturally in the environment and are needed by plants and animals to grow, but too much of any of them is harmful.

The experiment is a much more practical version of a study Boehme and colleagues published in Science in 2010, when they were able to read nuclear spins from phosphorus atoms in a conventional silicon semiconductor.

While phosphorus is recyclable, much of it gets washed from fields into the world's oceans or is lost to wastewater treatment plants after being excreted from our bodies.

Like nitrogen, phosphorus can form a triple bond — but it does so much less readily than its smaller sibling, nitrogen.

Not only is Greenland's melting ice sheet adding huge amounts of water to the oceans, it could also be unleashing 400,000 metric tons of phosphorus every year — as much as the mighty Mississippi River releases into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new study.

It is not clear yet how much of the phosphorus being released from the ice sheet is reaching the open ocean, but if a large amount of phosphorus coming off the glacier makes it to the sea, the nutrient could rev up biological activity of Arctic waters, according to the study's authors.

«Now we need to understand how much of this phosphorus, especially in the particulate, ends up being utilized in high - latitude marine ecosystems form,» said Hood.

They then estimated how much extra nitrogen and phosphorus would actually be available from natural sources and found that there would not be enough, revising the models accordingly.

Doughty gathered coal samples from mines throughout the U.S.. By measuring the coal elemental concentrations, he found elements needed by plants, like phosphorus, were more abundant and much better distributed during the era of the dinosaurs than the Carboniferous.

Here, the red arrows show the estimated amounts of phosphorus and other nutrients that were moved or diffused historically — and how much these flows have been reduced today.

The rice here doesn't need much fertilizer because the volcanic soil is already rich in potassium and phosphorus.

For example, the amount of phosphorus in a lake is a good predictor of how much algae will grow there.

Researchers from the Queensland government's environment and primary industry departments have calculated that four times as much river - borne nitrogen and phosphorus now reaches the coast of central and northern Queensland as 200 years ago, before Europeans settled there.

They found that phytoplankton were much more efficient at assimilating vanishingly low phosphorus concentrations than would have been predicted from culture research.

But at least for the parts of the Crab Nebula we were able to observe so far, there seems to be much less phosphorus than in Cas A.

When it comes to nutrients, like nitrogen and phosphorus, too much of a good thing can be bad.

It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).