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What is the process of converting ammonia into nitrates and nitrites called?
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What is the process that converts ammonia into nitrates?
Nitrification
What is the process of converting waste to reusable material called?
The process of converting waste to reusable material is called recycling.
Where is ammonia produced?
Many countries produce ammonia. We make it by habour process.
What is the name of the process of the industrial preparation of ammonia?
the haber process
The conversion of nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen is facilitated by microbes in a process called?
Denitrification
What is the process that converts ammonia into nitrates?
Nitrification
What you call it the process of converting ammonia to-urine?
There is a small amount of ammonia in urine. Ammonia is not converted to urine.
What form of nitrogen is produced by bacteria - in certain plant root nodules?
These bacteria, through the plant, receive elemental nitrogen from the air, and use it to produce ammonia (NH3). This process is called nitrogen fixation. The ammonia can then be converted in to oxides of nitrogen and nitrogen salts, such as nitrites and nitrates, which are used by the host plant and others as nutrients.
Which of the following correctly describes Nitrogen fixation?
The process of converting nitrogen in the air to nitrates.
The conversion of nitrates to nitrogen gas by bacteria is called?
Nitrogen Fixation.
How are the process of nitrogen fixation and denitrification different?
nitrification= it is the conversion of ammonia first into nitrites then into nitrates by nitrifying bacteria. dentrification=it is the conversion of nitrites and nitrates into free nitrogen.
What is the process of some types of soil bacteria obtain energy by converting nitrates into nitrogen gas?
Denitrification ya clown
Process of converting nitrogen gas into ammonia?
Is known as nitrogen fixation, done with the enzyme nitrogenase found in nitrogen fixing bacteria.
What are three ways meat was stored in colonial times?
It could be dried or salted. Another way is to use nitrates and nitrites as well as salt. That is called curing, the process we still use to make bacon.
What is the importance of nitrification?
When organisms die, decomposers return nitrogen to the soil as ammonia. The ammonia may be taken up again by producers. Other soil bacteria convert nitrates into nitrogen gas in a process called denitrifrication. this process releases nitrogen into the atmosphere once again.
What role does the denitrification play in the nitrogen?
When organisms die, decomposers return nitrogen to the soil as ammonia. The ammonia may be taken up again by producers. Other soil bacteria convert nitrates into nitrogen gas in a process called denitrifrication. this process releases nitrogen into the atmosphere once again.
Why do fish die in unfiltered water?
Well, that can be answered a few different ways. But the most widely accepted answer would be an explanation of the nitrogen cycle. When fish excrete urine and feces, it create ammonia in the tank. Yes that's the same ammonia you smell when you don't change the cat's little box for a couple days. When this waste builds up to a certain point, it literally suffocates your fish to death. What a way to go, laying in a pile of your own excrement...gross. Filters however provide a distinct advantage to our aquatic friends, and play an important part in breaking down that fish waste. Filters typically have some sort of medium in them which remove particles from the water...usually foam. But all sorts of media exist for this purpose. When the ammonia begins to build up in the tank, a special type of bacteria actually eat the fish waste and it builds up on your filter foam. These bacteria convert the ammonia into their own form of waster called "nitrites". Nitrites are also deadly to fish. Nitrites are also harmful to fish. After time goes on though the filter begins to grow an additional set of bacteria, specifically called "nitrobacter" that turn the nitrites...into nitrates. Which are more or less harmless to fish except in very high concentrations. Once nitrates build up and ammonia and nitrites are no longer being produced however, the nitrates can be removed by changing your water. So now you may be asking yourself, "Well ponds aren't filtered are they?" But the answer to that is also yes and no. Yes because in the wild this process takes place naturally, with nitrates becoming diluted by rainwater and decreasing the concentration. But no the water is not being filtered for particles and chemicals. But we must also take into account that in the wild, fish live in untold millions of gallons of water, sometimes in streams or lakes too. In streams the fish waste is washed away almost instantly though by the steadily moving current, and in ponds and lakes the waste is diluted almost immediately, or the fish can simply swim away from it. Filters are a very important part of fishkeeping, and allow hobbyists to cheat nature by stealing this important biological process for our own.
