Sentences with phrase «turned nitrogen gas»

Using different bacteria but the same overall setup, the researchers later turned nitrogen gas into ammonia for fertilizer, which could offer a more sustainable approach to the energy - guzzling method used for fertilizer production today.

Not exact matches

There, nitrogen and other «volatile» gases freeze solid in the cryogenic conditions, and water turns to rock - hard ice.

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.

The paper «Seasonal ITCZ migration dynamically controls the location of the (sub) tropical Atlantic biogeochemical divide» highlights how dust blowing off Africa's deserts amplify surface levels of iron in the Atlantic that in turn control the spatial activity of nitrogen gas fixing phytoplankton and phosphate content in the Tropical Atlantic.

A major culprit is fertilizer manufacture, which takes nonreactive nitrogen gas in the atmosphere and turns it into ammonia via the so - called Haber - Bosch process.

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.

Ultraviolet light from the distant Sun causes the surface ice — which is composed of nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane — to turn into a gas.

The DEF is injected into the exhaust and, as the resulting mixture passes through the SCR, NOx is turned into harmless nitrogen gas.

On Thursday, the Obama administration announced a «comprehensive approach» to enlist American farmers in a voluntary effort to cut greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides — through programs and incentives designed to reduce fertilizer use, encouraging tree planting, and turn poop into power by capturing methane.

Do you think the nitrogen would turn to gas faster if the water ice had a reflector behind it?

Carbon dioxide production by humans is less than 11 % of the world's production of CO2, which in turn is less than half of the less than 0.1 % of atmospheric gases that are not oxygen or nitrogen.