Nitrogen cycle Nitrogen gas is a colourless‚ odourless and non-toxic gas which makes up about 78 percent of the atmosphere. Nitrogen is extremely important to living material; in fact plants‚ animals and humans could not live without it. Sprent (1987) argued that nitrogen cycle is the most important process to living organisms after the carbon cycle. But nitrogen exists as dinitrogen (N2) in the atmosphere‚ which living things‚ particularly plants‚ cannot synthesize (citation) The process of nitrogen
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Nitrogen cycle A simple and complete diagram of the nitrogen cycle. The blue boxes represent stores of nitrogen‚ the green writing is for processes that occur to move the nitrogen from one place to another and the red writing are all the bacteria involved. The nitrogen cycle is the process by which nitrogen is converted between its various chemical forms. This transformation can be carried out through both biological and physical processes. Important processes in the nitrogen cycle include fixation
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Different pollutants released from the vehicles would cause different impacts to the human body. The first one is Nitrogen oxides (NOx). When the fuels are burning at a very high temperature combined with the electric sparks in the vehicles causing the nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere combined together but then the formation of nitrogen oxide will react with the oxygen to form nitrogen dioxide(NO2) rapidly. If people inhaled a low level of NO2‚ the gas will irritate your eyes‚ nose‚ throat‚ and
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The Nitrogen Cycle Nitrogen fixation Atmospheric nitrogen must be processed‚ or "fixed" to be used by plants. Some fixation occurs in lightning strikes‚ but most fixation is done by free-living or symbiotic bacteria. These bacteria have an enzyme that combines gaseous nitrogen with hydrogen to produce ammonia‚ which is then further converted by the bacteria to make their own organic compounds. Conversion of N2 The conversion of nitrogen (N2) from the atmosphere into a form readily available
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Liquid Nitrogen Liquid nitrogen is nitrogen in a liquid state at a very low temperature. Its chemical formula is N2. Manufacturing of Liquid Nitrogen Liquid nitrogen is made by cooling and compressing air straight from the atmosphere. The type used to produce large amounts of liquid nitrogen looks vastly different but really happens is that air squashed and cooled . When you squash it‚ air molecules are forced closer together. If you also cool it down the molecules can slow down enough to
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The process of Nitrogen being released from Alanine‚ oxidized by soil microbes‚ absorbed by a root‚ and reduced and assimilated into aspartic acid is known as the Nitrogen Cycle. This cycle is necessary because there is a shortage of nitrogen in the soil; therefore‚ most of the soil nitrogen is obtained from dead organic materials such as Amino Acids. The first step in this process is nitrogen being released from the amino acid. This process is known as ammonification. Alanine is used as an organic
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Table 1. Observations from week 2 for the detection of ammonia using the Nessler’s reagent and from week 1 for the pH using bromothymol blue indicator with the inoculation of P. vulgaris‚ P. fluorescens‚ and B. Cereus in peptone broth. Tubes were incubated at room temperature for 7 days and 14 days. Soil Microorganism Nessler’s Reagent (color reaction pH (bromothymol blue) Our results pH (bromothymol blue) Class results P. vulgaris Deep yellow ++ 8.0 8.0‚ 7.5‚ 6-7‚ 11.5 P. fluorescens
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mineral nutrients‚ and none is more important than nitrogen‚ which is required in large amounts as an essential component of proteins‚ nucleic acids and other cellular constituents. There is an abundant supply of nitrogen in the earth’s atmosphere - nearly 79% in the form of N2 gas. However‚ N2 is unavailable for use by most organisms because there is a triple bond between the two nitrogen atoms‚ making the molecule almost inert. In order for nitrogen to be used for growth it must be "fixed" (combined)
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Nitrogen Family (The traditional name for the elements in Nitrogen’s column‚ the “pnictogens”‚ comes from a Greek word for “choking” or “strangling”) P.7 Nitrogen: Fritz Haber discovered how to convert the Nitrogen in the air into an industrial product. Although nitrogen gas can suffocate those who are unsuspecting‚ tends to be benign‚ almost to the point of uselessness. The one important thing it can do is replenish the soil; it is as important to plants as vitamin c is to us. When pitcher
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Evergreen Do we as humans only live to die? One can’t understand the life of another‚ unless he/she has experienced that life first hand. People don’t realize that we (humans) are all playing the same role in life. William Shakespeare brilliantly clarifies the true meaning of life through his poem “All the worlds a stage.” Truth of life‚ destiny‚ and human ambition can be seen more clearly through theater than from life itself. The most elaborate themes from the poem are: the fact of all people
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