Sentences with phrase «nitrous oxide a gas»

nitrous oxide A gas composed of two atoms of nitrogen bound to one of oxygen.

While Methane and Nitrous oxide gases are more short lived, Co2 is long lived in the atmosphere, so stopping some of the gases will not eliminate the long term forcing on the oceanic thermal absorption.

While their design started out as a nitrous oxide thruster for spacecraft, they figured out how it could also be used at wastewater treatment plants to turn decompose nitrous oxide gas into nothing but hot air.

Not exact matches

Some of the nitrogen the crops do not absorb is converted into nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

Worldwide, livestock generate between 14.5 and 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions — mainly methane and nitrous oxide, which are more harmful to the climate than even CO2.

Reduces greenhouse gases, especially nitrous oxide, as no chemical nitrogen fertilizers are used and nutrient losses are minimized

The two main gases, methane and nitrous oxide, are considered to be more harmful than CO2 (methane is 21 times more powerful than CO2 and nitrous oxide is 310 times more powerful than CO2) so the data suggests that this is causing a highly dangerous situation for ourselves and, more importantly, for future generations.

Methane also remains in the atmosphere for 9 to 15 years; nitrous oxide remains in the atmosphere for 114 years, on average, and is 296 times more potent than CO2 — the gases released today will continue to be active in degrading the climate decades from now.

Jack Grealish has been at the centre of controversy off the field having been pictured inhaling nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas.

Nitrous oxide is a tasteless, odorless gas which can be used to provide some degree of pain relief during labor, delivery or postpartum (such as suturing).

Nitrous oxide is a tasteless, odorless gas which can be used to provide some degree of pain relief during labor, delivery, or postpartum procedures (such as suturing).

It has recently been announced that laughing gas (aka Nitrous Oxide) as a pain analgesia during labor is now available to you in some DC, Maryland, and Virginia hospitals.

The only thing that I had for my previous labors was nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and some remifentanyl (pain killer) in my IV.

But David Asante says the Alliance has testimony of an eye witness who is also a scientist claiming the police used nitrous oxide or sleeping gas on the protesters.

It then recommended that it refrain from banning the even more harmless drug nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas.

What's more, anyone ordering laughing gas can simply claim they are making whipped cream, which nitrous oxide is also used for.

In addition to the isotope concentration, the air bubbles trapped in the ice cores allow for measurement of the atmospheric concentrations of trace gases, including greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

A single carbon nanotube about two billionths of a meter wide can compete with the best materials of today at detecting ammonia and nitrous oxide, a gas often found in automobile emissions.

Drivers of Climate Change Atmospheric concentrations of many gases — primarily carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and halocarbons (gases once used widely as refrigerants and spray propellants)-- have increased because of human activities.

TRACE amounts of laughing gas, or nitrous oxide, in Mars's atmosphere could aid the search for life on the Red Planet.

Secondly, nitrogen can be converted to nitrous oxide, which is an extremely potent greenhouse gas.

«Denitrification produces carbon dioxide and both produces and consumes nitrous oxide, which is another major greenhouse gas and an ozone depletion agent,» he said.

In a paper released for discussion in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Crutzen calculated that 3 to 5 percent of the nitrogen in the fertilizers used to raise crops for biofuels could end up in the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a potent, long - lived greenhouse gas.

«If we want to stabilize the climate system, we need to focus on greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane.

Jacobson said the sum of warming caused by all anthropogenic greenhouse gases — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons and some others — plus the warming caused by black and brown carbon will yield a planetary warming effect of 2 degrees Celsius over the 20 - year period simulated by the computer.

A group of projects that reduce emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O)-- a particularly potent greenhouse gas — from fertiliser production plants in China.

Research has indicated that no - till methods could reduce emissions of nitrous oxide — a gas with 300 times the greenhouse potency of carbon dioxide — by 57 percent (ClimateWire, Jan. 6).

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.

Other greenhouse gases include, but are not limited to, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons.

Instead, they provide the ideal conditions for the growth of yet other bacteria that in turn produce more potent greenhouse gases, such as nitrous oxide and methane.

What happens to the ozone layer in the second half of the 21st century will largely depend on concentrations of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide — the three main long - lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

By contrast, nitrous oxide, a by - product of food production, is both a powerful greenhouse gas and an ozone depleting gas, and is likely to become more important in future ozone depletion.

Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.

What proved possible included an extension of the Kyoto Protocol for a period of either five or seven years (excluding Canada, Japan and Russia but adding nitrogen trifluoride, used in semiconductor manufacture, to the list of gases covered — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons), a Green Climate Fund to help low - income countries cope (albeit without any actual funds yet), an Adaptation Committee to coordinate such efforts globally, rules for a global program to reduce deforestation and how to monitor such deforestation, and a Climate Technology Center that will help launch projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Any nitrogen not taken up by plants is met by soil microbes that turn the fertilizer into nitrous oxide, an ozone - depleting gas that is also 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

This effect makes the atmosphere act somewhat like a blanket that becomes thicker when amounts of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide, increase.

The explosive force occurs when solid ammonium nitrate decomposes very rapidly into two gases, nitrous oxide and water vapor.

Warming of arctic soils and thawing of permafrost thus can have substantial consequences for the global climate, as the large C and N stores could be released to the atmosphere as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).

Collisions between the particles and molecules in Earth's atmosphere produced nitrous oxide, a planet - warming greenhouse gas, and hydrogen cyanide, a crucial component for building DNA, the researchers propose May 23 in Nature Geoscience.

They tested the output of three greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide — from five species of insects, including mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) and house crickets (Acheta domesticus).

«Indirect» emissions often refer to gases released far from the source, like nitrous oxide that is emitted downstream from the fertilizer from which it originates.

Not to be confused with the anesthetic gas nitrous oxide, nitric oxide was long considered to be only a toxic pollutant gas.

And a new study shows that biochar could have an impact on agriculture's other greenhouse gas emission: nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, which is no laughing matter when it comes to climate change.

These include methane, nitrous oxide («laughing gas»), halons, methyl bromide and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which are notorious as «ozone killers» because they play a major role in ozone depletion in the polar regions.

Manure accounts for around 14 per cent of New Zealand's emissions of nitrous oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Food production accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions when one tallies those from fossil fuels used in growing, preparing and transporting food; the carbon dioxide released by clearing land for farming and pastures; the methane from rice paddies and ruminant livestock; and the nitrous oxide from fertilizer use.

The process generates copious amounts of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide, while the output of methane — another potent greenhouse gas — from cattle is estimated to generate some 20 percent of overall U.S. methane emissions.

But methane and nitrous oxide are also greenhouse gasses and account for approximately 28 percent of global warming activity.

The G - 8's unstated implication is that the proposed emissions drops would only cover those greenhouse gases regulated under the Kyoto treaty (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, and perfluorocarbons).

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a powerful greenhouse gas and also the second largest contributor to ozone depletion in the stratosphere.