Sentences with phrase «nitrogen compounds into»

In nature, only one enzyme — bacterial nitrogenase — can achieve the same reaction, but without emitting excess nitrogen compounds into the environment, or in other words, leaching of nitrates into groundwater.

Not exact matches

When sulfur dioxide gets into the atmosphere and meets nitrogen oxides, compounds are formed that lead to acid in the rain.

But before life arose, nitrogen fixation must have occurred via purely chemical means: That's because amino acids and nucleic acids, which both contain nitrogen, were likely the organic compounds that developed into Earth's first lifeforms.

Fungi like this break down organic compounds into nitrogen.

Nitrospinae bacteria, which use the nitrogen compound nitrite to «fix» inorganic carbon dioxide into sugars and other compounds for food and reproduction, are responsible for 15 to 45 percent of such carbon fixation in the western North Atlantic Ocean, researchers report in the...

But here's the rub: Chemical companies turn nitrogen found naturally in the atmosphere into ammonium and nitrate compounds that make up fertilizer.

Volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides from Asian cars and industry mix in the atmosphere as they cross the Pacific Ocean and convert in sunlight into ozone, a main ingredient in smog, Jaffe explains.

Turning greenhouse gases into cooling aerosols The team then mixed the intermediates with various compounds, like sulfur and nitrogen greenhouse gases, to see how fast they reacted.

Green peas act as natural nitrogen fixers, converting the compound into a usable form for organisms.

The reasoning is that catalytic converters convert oxygen and oxygen - rich compounds (such as nitrogen oxide) with carbon and carbon - rich compounds (such as carbon monoxide) into carbon dioxide.

The Nitrogen Cycle is a biological process that converts ammonia (from fish waste, and uneaten food) into nitrogen compounds, through the establishment of bacterial colonies.

These include: plants receiving NO3 as their sole source of nitrogen (N) accumulate less organic N under elevated than ambient CO2 (refs 7,911); plants subjected to a pulse of 15N - NO3 - incorporate less 15N into organic N compounds under elevated than ambient CO2 (ref.

Is it the long - awaited, predicted and scientifically reasonable CO2 fertilization feedback effect on the oceans» vast biomass of CO2 - consuming cyanobacteria, albeit also driven by the (literally) «shit - loads» of nitrogen compounds the human race is also pumping into the oceans — thereby shifting sea surface albedos, reducing evaporation rates and troposphere relative humidities (ringing any bells here, bros)?

Hypothetically (and the relationship is already well established statistically) the gamut of Mid Winter Warmings, Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and Final Warmings in the Arctic stratosphere depend upon the supply of ozone rich air from mid latitudes being thrust into the Arctic stratosphere where ozone is normally in a somewhat depleted state due to erosive nitrogen compounds descending from the mesosphere, in turn related to Particle Precipitation Events that are strongly related to geomagnetic influences and the solar wind.

Ozone is an odorless gas that is not directly emitted into the air but is created by chemical reactions between nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC)-- which occur naturally but are also produced from the burning of fossil fuels and are released in the process of drilling for oil and natural gas.

Acid rain develops when compounds like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere combine with water and oxygen to form acidic pollutants such as sulfuric acid (EPA, 2012).