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Last time I checked, about 70% of the Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen. "Nitrogen pollution" sure sounds like fake news to me.
by csense 6y ago
Last time I checked, about 70% of the Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen. "Nitrogen pollution" sure sounds like fake news to me.
- gus_massa 6y agoIt is very difficult to transform N2 to a molecule that is biological useful, only some bacteria can do it (some live in special nodules in the roots of some plants) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation and there are some artificial process to do it (mostly to make fertilizer and explosives) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process . An excess of fertilizers (directly from plants or from the mature) can produce problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal_bloom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal_bloom (Anyway, that sentence about N2 is very weird.)
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