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Q: Why is the use of too much phosphorus -rich fertilizers bad for the environment?
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Research on the manufacture and the use of organic and inorganic fertilizers and how these affect the environment?

Organic fertilizers are manufactured using only naturally existing elements, while inorganic fertilizers use chemical compounds that contain the same types of minerals and nutrients as organic fertilizers. An organic fertilizer might use fish emulsions to add certain nutrients to the soil, while an inorganic fertilizer might use a man made acid based compound to fulfill the same need as the fish emulsions. Organic fertilizers are often times absorbed much more easily into the environment with little side effects, although any runoff of nutrient rich water can affect a watershed's territory. The main problem with inorganic fertilizers is that they use "steroid" like compounds to maintain faster vegetative and flowering growth cycles.


How can you keep soil healthy and rich?

Fertilizers are a good way to inject nutrients into the soil. Compost and manure are also very good to the soil's health. -Super Llama


What s the formula f the predicted product from heating potassium metal an powdered phosphorus?

K3P, potassium phosphide. This is the one that is most likely to be predicted. It contains the P3- ion. Note that potassium actually has nine binary phosphides , (K3P, K4P3, K5P4, KP, K4P6 K3P7, K3P11, KP10.3, KP15 Before heat the metal and phosphorus (under vacuum and with extreme care) I would weigh out the reactants in exactly the correct proportions to minimise the potassium rich or phosphorus rich compounds.


What are the advantages of red soil?

Some advantages of Red Soil are - 1) It is rich in potash (a compound of Potassium) 2) It is porous and friable. 3) When fertilizers are added, soil becomes productive.


Does California have rich soil?

YES!!California has rich soil. you can pretty much plant anything.

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What does fertilizer do to plants?

That the growth of the plant's shoots is stimulated by nitrogen, of the roots by phosphorus, and of the flowers and fruits by potassium is what nutrient rich fertilizers do to plants.


Why fertilizers are more efficient than manures?

because fertilizers are rich in nutrients


What biochemical is bird guano rich in?

phosphorus


Why are most fertilizers rich in nitrogen and phosphorous?

Adding phosphorus to soil that needs more, promotes root growth, winter hardiness, and can hasten maturity in the plants grown there. Nitrogen helps plants to grow and helps them to feed themselves.


What is the Atacama Desert rich in?

It is rich in nitrates that are used to produce fertilizers and explosives. However, nitrate mining has pretty much ceased. Now it is copper that is the main resource of the Atacama Desert.


What is the best fertilizer for pumpkins?

Nitrogen-rich compost followed by phosphorus- and potassium-rich composts or 10-5-5 nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium (NPK) fertilizer followed by 5-10-5 are the best fertilizers for pumpkins. Compost can be mixed into the planting hole and used as organic mulch. It is important to pour or spray vegetative-supportive teas from composted, diluted, strained carbon-rich fallen leaves and nitrogen-rich coffee grounds, fallen leaves, kitchen scraps and manure before flowering and fruiting stages. The tea requires composted, diluted, strained carbon-rich fallen leaves and phosphorus- and potassium-rich banana peels, grass clippings and wood ash for proper flowering and fruiting.


What do you call the phosphate-rich excreta of birds which is used as fertilizers in Europe?

guano


Research on the manufacture and the use of organic and inorganic fertilizers and how these affect the environment?

Organic fertilizers are manufactured using only naturally existing elements, while inorganic fertilizers use chemical compounds that contain the same types of minerals and nutrients as organic fertilizers. An organic fertilizer might use fish emulsions to add certain nutrients to the soil, while an inorganic fertilizer might use a man made acid based compound to fulfill the same need as the fish emulsions. Organic fertilizers are often times absorbed much more easily into the environment with little side effects, although any runoff of nutrient rich water can affect a watershed's territory. The main problem with inorganic fertilizers is that they use "steroid" like compounds to maintain faster vegetative and flowering growth cycles.


Why do you need fertilizer?

To make the soil more nutrient rich is the reason for using fertilizers. Fertilizers make soil more fertile. They do so by adding nutrients that are necessary to the health and well being of soil food web critters, soil, and plants. The most common nutrients are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. They respectively contribute to above ground growth of shoots, below ground growth of roots, and proper flowering and fruiting.


Why may affluence be worse for the environment than poverty?

The rich consume; the poor do not (consume so much).


What is topsoil rich in nutrients?

Topsoil is rich in nutrients because it is necessary for plant nutrition. Topsoil has about 17 different nutrients such as potassium, nitrogen and phosphorus.


What are the benefits of using manure?

Convenience, impact and savings are the benefits of using manure. Manure can be collected, stored and used on-site so money and time need not be spent on off-site purchases of nitrogen-rich fertilizers. Its high nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium content ensures immediate support to roots and shoots growth.