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Nitrogen can be broken down my plants and the soil and from animal waste
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Can carbon be broke down into less complex substance?
Carbon is an element and the definition of an element is that it cannot be broken down into any other element using chemical means. through fusion and fission it could be broken down or built up into oxygen or nitrogen or any number of other elements. But not without unearthly large amounts of energy (usually from a supercollider)
What purpose does nitrogen in the air serve?
Nitrogen slows down the action of oxygen
Can a element be broken down into compounds?
You misunderstand!!!! a compound is broken down into its elemental atoms.
Chemicals can be chemically broken down into?
chemical compound can be broken down into simplier elements.
Can boron be broken down by chemical change?
No. It is an element and fundamentally already as "broken down" as possible.
What is the main ingredient in nitrogen?
nitrogen is an element, thus it is as broken down as possible
What is is nitrogen?
Nitrogen is called nitrogen because when scientist first discover it the scientist thought up the name nitrogen because that name has connection to the gas.
Once nitrogen is in humans how is it returned to the environment?
Most of it broken down to urea (in kidney) by urination
Describe the path of nitrogen through its biogeochemical cycle?
Nitrogen gas in the soil is used by plants, which are eaten by animals. The waste products of the animals contain the nitrogen. It is broken down by bacteria, which releases nitrogen gas into the atmosphere, and the cycle repeats.
What does nitrogen have in it?
Nitrogen is an element. It exists as molecules of 2 Nitrogen atoms triple bonded together. Unlike a compound, which can be broken down into its constituent elements, Nitrogen cannot be. All that nitrogen contains are protons, neutrons and electrons, the particles which make up all elements.
Why is nitrogen balance used to evaluate a person's protein status?
Because protein -- is broken apart into amino acids -- which is again further broken down into Nitric Oxide, basically. High Nitrogen levels are indicative of high protein levels in a manner of speaking.
Do most organisms use nitrogen in the form of nitrogen gas?
No. They can not use nitrogen gas because the triple bonds of nitrogen can only be broken down for use in living things, plants, by the symbiotic bacteria in the root nodes. Then in other forms nitrogen is taken up into the plant and from there to other trophic levels.
Is nitrogen from amino acid breakdown stored in the liver?
Access aminp acids cannot be stored and is either broken down into nitrogen of converted to storable fats and carbohydrates by the liver. Nitrogen is highly toxic and is excreted in the urine, not stored in the liver.
What happens when a full nitrogen cylinder top is broken off?
Nitrogen slowly leaks out
What did lavoisier contribute to the periodic table?
In 1789 Lavoisier published his Elementary Treatise of Chemistry in which he identified oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, phosphorus, Mercury, zinc and sulphur as substances which could not be broken down further - that is, they were identified as elements.
In DNA copying what are the bonds between the nitrogen bases broken by?
They are broken by the enzyme DNA helicase.
How does nitrogen from the air get into the bodies of plants and animals?
When the animals breathe in nitrogen it goes into their bodies so when they die and decompose the nitrogen they breathed in is now in the soil and also when they fertilize on the land.
