Fertilizers common to crop production in Indiana usually contain nitrogen in one or more of the following forms: nitrate, ammonia, ammonium or urea. Each form has specific properties that determine ...

When chemists had an idea for a better catalyst to make ammonia, they decided to try nine variations at the same time. That ...

"You won't just find ammonium nitrate in the ground," explains Andrea Sella, professor of chemistry at University College London. That's because it's synthetic, made by reacting ammonia with ...

Generally, farmers inject it directly into the soil, where it dissolves and reacts with water to form ammonium, which plants ...

Ammonia, NH 3, is an alkaline gas and so turns damp red litmus paper blue. Ammonium ions (NH 4 +) – found in ammonium compounds such as ammonium chloride, ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate ...

However, ammonia- and nitrite-oxidizers also play a very important role in wastewater treatment facilities by removing potentially harmful levels of ammonium that could lead to the pollution of ...

The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...

Work led by University of Alaska Fairbanks and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers shows that the effort to improve ...

Beyond agriculture, ammonium nitrate’s role as an oxidizer in industrial applications, especially in solid rocket propellants and explosives, underscores its versatility. Its combination with fuel oil ...

The world’s first ship-to-ship transfer of ammonia using vessels at anchorage in a working port environment has been ...