nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element with symbol N and atomic number 7. Elemental nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, and mostly inert diatomic gas at standard conditions, constituting 78.09% by volume of Earth's atmosphere. The element nitrogen was discovered as a separable component of air, by Scottish physician Daniel Rutherford, in 1772. It belongs to the pnictogen family.

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Carnivorous plants turn to veggie diet due to pollution

Wed, Jun 13, 2012

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Carnivorous plants may soon have to give up their meaty habits and turn veggie, as a recent study found that carnivours plants in Swedish bogs have significantly reduced their preying behavior, due to nitrogen pollution. The  sundew drosera rotundifolia is one of the most common carnivours plant species, growing across much of Northern Europe in rain-fed bogs. [...]

Ants use bacteria to grow gardens

Wed, Nov 25, 2009

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Ants are definitely most amazing creatures, and there’s so much we could learn from them I wouldn’t even know where to start. But even so, there are many things we have yet to find about them. Leaf cutter ants are one of the most remarkable species, and scientists have recently found a new quality (or [...]

Healthy Rivers Needed To Remove Nitrogen

Fri, Mar 14, 2008

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Nature has its own way of protecting itself, and we should have already learned this (the hard way), because so many catastrophes have happened as a result of man’s destructive work. Look at the damage caused by the recent tsunamis; they would have been almost neglectable if we hadn’t destroyed the plankton, which has a [...]

Global Nitrogen Budget affected by fish

Wed, Jan 30, 2008

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  Nature has its own balance which is both sturdy and fragile at the same time; when that balance is broken (by man, what else?) it is very hard and sometimes almost impossible to set things right. That’s why we have to pay attention to the numerous fragile ecosystems because everything is connected. It goes [...]

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