A forest fire sweeps everything in its path. It drastically alters the soil environment, causing extreme temperatures, ...

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This latest triumph builds on previous successes by the Japanese company, which has shown that quartz-free HVPE can grow GaN ...

IN NATURE of August 30, 1906, an article was published describing the Birkeland Eyde process for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by electrothermic methods and the conversion of the nitric ...

The air at the bottom of this atmospheric ocean is anything but clean. It is polluted by a variety of foreign substances from both natural and man-made sources. One of these sources for ...

Centuries ago, alchemists worked furiously to convert the common metal lead to valuable gold. Today, chemists are repurposing discarded solar panels to create valuable organic compounds from carbon ...

Forests, grasslands, and other natural areas around the world have access to about a quarter less nitrogen than previously estimated, according to a new study published in Nature.

Nitrogen fixation, which describes producing ammonia sustainably, is now a $200bn market and one of the world’s top 10 emerging technologies, according to a new joint report from the World Economic ...

For pt.I see ibid.(vol.11 no.3 p.481-90, 2004). In order to validate a nonthermal plasma model using nitrogen in a ferroelectric packed-bed reactor, the number density of the excited nitrogen ...

Its thin atmosphere, which consists mostly of nitrogen, has persisted despite the rock-bottom temperatures, but new research suggests that trend may changing, and Pluto’s atmosphere could ...

Water quality could be degraded by development and conversion of forests upstream, with sediment levels and nitrogen concentrations also worsened, per modelling analysis of the Middle ...

Rayleigh's experiments, carried out on a large laboratory scale, showed the feasibility of obtaining nitric acid or nitrates from the atmosphere, and, given cheap power and appropriate appliances ...