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What is meant by nitrogen fixation state two ways in which nitrogen gas of the atmosphere can be fixed in nature to get nitrogen compound in the soil?
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What are 5 example of chemical reaction that occur in nature?
ashley haimescombustion(forest fire) rusting of iron nitrogen fixation corrosion of copper
Why is there more nitrogen in the atmosphere than oxygen?
The atomosphere would be explosive otherwise and the planet uninhabitable. Nitrogen acts as nature's diluent.
How do nitrates produced?
in nature nitrogen from the atmosphere is converted to ammonia by nitrifying bacteria ammonia is then converted to nitrite and then to nitrate by nitrogen fixing bacteria. nitrate is converted back to nitrogen by denitrifying bacteria
Where is argon found in nature?
it is found in airair is made up of oxygen hydrogen, nitrogen, and small amounts of argon.in earths atmosphere
Will neptunium combine with other elements?
Nitrogen is the most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere, comprising around 80% of it. Bacteria 'fix' nitrogen into a compound that plants can use. (It is also found in a bacteria called nitrogen fix bacteria. ) Nitrogen is present in all amino acids, therefore forms a part of all proteins.
What is nitrogen fixation and why are bacteria crucial to this cycle of life?
The air is about 80% nitrogen- but cannot be used by plants for food. Nitrogen fixing bacteria transform nitrogen in the air to nitrogen in the soil that plants CAN use- resulting in greatly improved plant growth, and more fertile soil.
What are two ways that nitrogen fixation can take place?
Lightning strikes and special bacteria that grow on plant roots.
What does it mean to have nitrogen fixed?
Nitrogen fixation is the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen, N2, into some biological form, such as ammonia, NH3, or nitrogen dioxide, NO2. In nature, this process is most often completed by nitrogen-fixing bacteria or diazotrophs. Nitrogen fixation is important because only fixed nitrogen can be used for basic biological substances such as proteins and nucleic acids.
Is nitrogen found by itself in nature?
Yes, in fact 78% of earth's atmosphere is elemental nitrogen.
What is nature's way of changing nitrogen atoms to usable matter?
Nitrogen fixation as performed by a very few species of anaerobic soil bacteria. The most prolific species of these bacteria are symbiotic with legume plants. In the early 1900s Haber in Germany invented an industrial process to perform nitrogen fixation without the need for such microorganisms.
What are 5 example of chemical reaction that occur in nature?
ashley haimescombustion(forest fire) rusting of iron nitrogen fixation corrosion of copper
Why is nitrogen more than oxygen in the atmosphere?
The atomosphere would be explosive otherwise and the planet uninhabitable. Nitrogen acts as nature's diluent.
Why is there more nitrogen in the atmosphere than oxygen?
The atomosphere would be explosive otherwise and the planet uninhabitable. Nitrogen acts as nature's diluent.
How do nitrates produced?
in nature nitrogen from the atmosphere is converted to ammonia by nitrifying bacteria ammonia is then converted to nitrite and then to nitrate by nitrogen fixing bacteria. nitrate is converted back to nitrogen by denitrifying bacteria
Where is argon found in nature?
it is found in airair is made up of oxygen hydrogen, nitrogen, and small amounts of argon.in earths atmosphere
Who is the founder of nitrogen cycle in nature?
Nitrogen compounds have more than one source in nature. Nitrogen fixing bacteria, found in the root nodules of leguminous plants, are a major source. Lightning produces a certain amount of nitric oxide (through combustion of oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere) which dissolves in the rain to form nitric acid, which also contributes biologically usable nitrogen.
What does an increase in nitrogen in the atmosphere mean?
It depends. There could be a factory in the vicinity that is pumping nitrogen into the air because of the chemical processes involved. There could even have been an explosion somewhere near increasing the level of nitrogen in the atmosphere. But nitrogen is, of course, also an intrinsic element in the socalled nitrogen cycle in nature, and any inbalance in this regard -- the freeing of more or less nitrogen than could be considered "normal" from its fixations in the soil or elsewhere -- could be a clear sign that something is wrong with the environment.
