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on Monday February 13 2017, @12:18PM
from the when-you-REALLY-want-to-clear-your-sinuses dept.
from the when-you-REALLY-want-to-clear-your-sinuses dept.
https://unews.utah.edu/ammonia/
Nearly a century ago, German chemist Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a process to generate ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen gases. The process, still in use today, ushered in a revolution in agriculture, but now consumes around one percent of the world's energy to achieve the high pressures and temperatures that drive the chemical reactions to produce ammonia.
Today, University of Utah chemists publish a different method, using enzymes derived from nature, that generates ammonia at room temperature. As a bonus, the reaction generates a small electrical current. The method is published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201612500] [DX].
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @04:15AM
https://remineralize.org/ [remineralize.org]
"REMINERALIZATION utilizes finely ground rock dust and sea-based
minerals to restore soils and forests, produce higher yields and more
nutritious food, and store carbon in soils to stabilize the climate."
It works for the same reason people risk volcanoes to grow lush crops near them.