Sentences with phrase «nitrogen gas makes»

Even though nitrogen gas makes up approximately 80 percent of Earth's atmosphere, the plant can only access it in a bound — or «fixed» — form.

Not exact matches

And a Nobel - prize winning chemist has publicized his findings that biofuels made from nitrogen - thirsty plants (like corn and canola) actually produce a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions, because they release nitrous oxide during their production.

When hydrocarbon - based fuels like methane are burned in normal air, nitrogen gets mixed in with the combustion product — flue gases from conventional gas power stations contain as little as 3 percent CO2 — which makes scrubbing carbon from power plant emissions difficult and expensive.

That strength makes nitrogen gas unreactive, as the bond is very difficult to break.

A second factor makes nitrogen compounds explosive: the newly formed nitrogen molecules form a gas, which can expand very quickly and form a shock wave.

In fact, had scientists not created synthetic, mostly natural - gas - based fertilizer decades ago to improve nature's method of «fixing» nitrogen — a process of breaking nitrogen molecules apart to make them available to plants — neither you nor I, nor most of the 7 billion people crowding the planet, would be here today.

Ammonia is currently made by a reaction between nitrogen and hydrogen, called the Haber - Bosch process, where hydrogen is produced from reforming natural gas.

The answer is that before the sunlight reaches Earth, it first has to travel through our atmosphere, which is a layer of gas made up of tiny molecules of mostly nitrogen and oxygen that surrounds our planet.

Their findings have been recently published in EPJ D and are particularly relevant for the development of novel applications in medicine, health care and materials processing because they involve air at normal atmospheric pressure, which would make it cheaper than applications in inert gases or nitrogen.

One such gas is nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), which is used to make retail items like microchips and flat - screen TVs.

Third, the solar wind — a thin stream of electrically conducting gas continuously blown off the surface of the Sun — contains the elements used to make amino acids, such as hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen.

The gas is only found in trace amounts in Earth's atmosphere (which is mostly made up of nitrogen and oxygen), even though carbon is the primary basis for life on our planet.

SeaYu Enterprises SeaYu Enterprises» Clean + Green line of odor - control products — including a product specifically made for small animals — are made from cane - sugar derivatives, a proprietary blend of botanical extracts, hydrated cellulose (a plant - based cleaning agent), purified water, and nitrogen gas as a natural propellant.

In particular, the new «Planetary Boundaries» paper, forthcoming in Nature, makes the case that humanity has overshot the global carrying capacity in a variety of key areas, including GHGs [greenhouse gases], nitrogen, phosphorus, fresh water, land use, and biodiversity.

That does not make nitrogen or oxygen greenhouse gases.

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.

Trace gas - A minor constituent of the atmosphere, next to nitrogen and oxygen that together make up 99 % of all volume.

Often the CO2 will strike one of the oxygen or nitrogen molecules which make up the great majority of atmospheric gases, setting them in motion, too — warming them.

The methodology, developed jointly by Michigan State University (MSU) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), makes it possible for farmers to participate in carbon markets by creating greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets by reducing the amount of nitrogen used to fertilize crops.

Without the real gases, mainly nitrogen and oxygen which make up c98 % of our real Earth's atmosphere, the temps would be around minus 18 °C, with the real greenhouse gases mainly nitrogen and oxygen, but, without water, the temps would be 67 °C.

Carbon dioxide and nitrogen and oxygen have been reduced to a non-existant entity, a concept of a gas with no properties and processes, as they've done with «all electromagnetic energy is the same and all create heat on being absorbed», making them ideal gases without properties and processes in the Greenhouse Effect — they have actually become hard dots of nothing without volume travelling at great speeds under their own molecular momentum bouncing off each other in elastic collisions, as the description of the imaginary ideal gas in a container of real world physics textbooks.

The only thing I'm keeping from ideal gas is elastic collisions (which as I've given re actual properties of nitrogen and oxygen make our atmosphere approximate to his model).

95 The case for crop - based biofuels was further undermined when a team led by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize — winning chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, concluded that emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, from the synthetic nitrogen fertilizer used to grow crops such as corn and rapeseed for biofuel production can negate any net reductions of CO2 emissions from replacing fossil fuels with biofuels, thus making biofuels a threat to climate stability.

This was important because nitrogen and oxygen make up almost all of the gas in the atmosphere.

Skyrocketing fertilizer costs making up the bulk of recent increases in wheat production costs, and the cost of fertilizers is largely tied to the cost of natural gas (production of nitrogen - based fertilizers consumes a considerable amount of natural gas).

Ditto nitrogen fertilisers currently made from natural gas.

The Earth has an atmosphere made up of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other gases.

So, deal gas with no actual volume has nothing to expand and condense which which is how we get convection as heated real gases mainly nitrogen and oxygen and water expand becoming lighter than air and so rise which spontaneously makes colder heavier real gases sink — in the fluid medium they comprise.

The atmosphere is about 800 km (500 miles) deep and is made up of 21 % oxygen, 78 % nitrogen, 0.037 % carbon dioxide, and other gases including hydrogen, helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and water vapour.

The thing that made them different in manufacture was that the old cells were made using a gas called nitrogen trifluoride or NFl 3 (note, there is no carbon in this stuff).

Ruminants such as sheep, cattle, and goats can not make long - termadditions to the gases in the atmosphere — they just recycle atmospheric carbon and nitrogen nutrients in a cycle - of - life that has operated for millennia.

If nitrogen gas, which makes up 80 % of the atmosphere, radiated «according to it's temperature», how would anyone be able to take an IR photograph that didn't look like a photo taken in a thick fog?

While TreeHugger wishes that all of our food was organic and made without fertilizers, the fact is that much of North America's agriculture is dependent on nitrogen fertilizer, and it is made with natural gas.

The combination of high prices of natural gas, which is used to make nitrogen fertilizer, and of phosphate, as reserves are depleted, suggests a much greater future emphasis on nutrient recycling — an area where small farmers producing for local markets have a distinct advantage over massive feeding operations.

CO2 from ships makes up roughly 3 percent of all human - emitted CO2 and almost 30 percent of smog - forming nitrogen oxide gases.

Ruminants such as sheep, cattle and goats can not make long - term additions to the gases in the atmosphere — they just recycle atmospheric carbon and nitrogen nutrients in a cycle - of - life that has operated for millennia.

It would be nice to see the IPCC make projections for atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations over the next 100 years based at least in part on carbon / nitrogen cycle models, hydrology / permafrost models, and so on.

Among many low points, this may have reached its nadir when a House member from Nebraska asked, smirkingly and out of the blue, whether nitrogen should be banned — presumably to make the point that atmospheric gases are all either harmless or outright beneficial, and hence, should not be regulated.