ammonia
Example Sentences
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Football leans on tradition, providing convenient cover for the NFL’s lenient stance on smelling salts, ammonia crystals that players believe enhance performance when inhaled.
From Los Angeles Times
Over longer periods, ammonia created as a metabolic byproduct of Sporosarcina pasteurii could help enable closed loop agricultural systems and might even play a role in Mars's terraforming efforts.
From Science Daily
Other alternatives to fuel oil that have been used in commercial shipping—like methanol, ammonia and natural gas—are either in short supply, toxic to the environment or cut emissions by only around 25%.
An acquisition of BHP’s petroleum business was cheered by investors, though they looked askance at the company’s decision to invest in a low-carbon ammonia project in Texas.
For the new study, the researchers shifted their focus and asked a different question: How much do these ammonia oxidizers actually contribute to the overall dissolved inorganic carbon fixation in the dark ocean?
From Science Daily
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