Sentence examples for ammonia from inspiring English sources

The nitrate mines fuelled Chile's economy and fertilised Europe's farms.On July 2nd 1909, with the help of an engineer named Carl Bosch from the BASF company, Fritz Haber succeeded in combining nitrogen (from the air) with hydrogen (from coal) to make ammonia.

The inner two appear, from their densities, to have a lot of water or methane or ammonia in them (or any mixture of the three), along with hydrogen and helium.

The rate at which these clusters emerge depends on the presence of compounds such as ammonia and amines.Armed with greater detail about what aerosols look like and how they behave, researchers have been able to paint a more accurate picture of how they affect clouds, and hence the climate.

The internal geometry of the reactors in which they live is designed to keep them in constant contact with enough methane to grow, enough air to respire and enough ammonia to provide the nitrogen which, along with the carbon and hydrogen in the methane, is a fundamental building block of the amino acids from which proteins are made.Nor are the Methylococci alone.

Many variables explain this, but the most important is that farming in these heavily populated countries (unlike that in America) emits huge amounts of ammonia.

But when crushed and combined with a witches' brew of other chemicals, including lithium, liquid fuel and ammonia, it is the precursor to the illegal drug methamphetamine, or meth.

That suggests other compounds are important, too and this, in turn, implies that current climate models, which assume most seeds are made of ammonia or sulphuric acid, may require revision.Atmospheric physics is, of course, notoriously complex.

To their surprise, they discovered that the seed-formation rates for sulphuric acid and ammonia are between a tenth and a thousandth of those needed to account for the cloud seeding actually seen in the atmosphere.

But Urey had originally been a zoologist, and he was keenly interested in the origin of life, in particular, Charles Darwin's musings about life starting in a "warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc, present [and thus] a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes".

As in a car exhaust, the flue gases next pass through a catalytic converter, where the nitrogen oxides are chemically reduced with ammonia or urea.

But Mercedes and VW are betting that from 2008 they will be able to meet the new standards with technology, such as the Benz Bluetec diesel, which adds ammonia to the exhaust gases to break down pollutants.