An electronic tongue has been developed to monitor the presence of ammonium nitrate in water. It is based on pulse voltammetry and consists of an array of eight working electrodes (Au; Pt; Rh; Ir; Cu; Co; Ag and Ni) encapsulated in a stainless steel cylinder. In a first step the electrochemical response of the different electrodes was studied in the presence of ammonium nitrate in water in orde...

Ammonium and nitrate uptake was measured in 6 European tidal estuaries (Ems. Rhine, Scheldt, Loire, Gironde and Douro) using I5N-tracer techniques. Uptake rates of ammonium and nitrate ranged from 0.005 to 1.56 pmol N 1-' h-I and 0.00025 to 0.25 pmol N 1-' h-I, respectively, and differed significantly between and within estuaries. Analysis of nitrogen uptake using the relative preferential inde...

Ammonium nitrate is a semivolatile aerosol component under typical ambient conditions and thus difficult to measure. In the field, the aersosol scattering coefficient is usually measured with a nephelometer by heating the ambient aerosol to a low reference relative humidity (∼40%) in order to measure a light scattering coefficient that is intrinsic to an aerosol rather than dependent on atmosph...

Bamboo, a lignocellulosic biopolymer material, is of interest as feedstock for production of cellulose derivatives by chemical functionalization. Optimization of grafting of acrylonitrile onto cellulosic material (average Degree of Polymerization 816), isolated from bamboo (Dendrocalamus stictus) was performed by varying the process parameters such as duration of soaking of cellulosic material ...

For the granulation of nitrate-sulfate-carbonate melt, prilling method is applied using a tower. The composition and properties new types fertilizers were studied. It shown that with ratio NH 4 NO 3 : СаСО (NH ) 2 SO = 100: 24: 1 product contains 28,03% - N, 0,50% , 10% СаО has granule strength 6.03 MPa, which much higher than pure granules (1.32 MPa). absorption AN 4.82 g. With an increase in ...

Abstract Nitrogen (N) fertilization to crops might lead formation and release of reactive N—e.g. nitrate, ammonium, ammonia, nitrous oxide (N 2 O) —, contributing eutrophication, atmospheric pollution, climate change. Use nitrification inhibitors splitting N fertilizer may reduce the O emission from arable soils cropped with winter wheat. We tested different fertilizers treated 3,4-dimethylpyra...

this experiment was carried out on lily cut flowers in greenhouse conditions and at the agricultural faculty of guilan university. the statistical factorial experiment was performed in a completely randomized design of three replications. the main factors studied were cultivars navona (asiatic) and fangio (la) along with four levels of calcium sulfate (0, 2.5, 5 and 10 mm) in combination with t...

this experiment was carried out in the agricultural faculty of guilan university. the factorial experiment was performed based on a completely randomized design of three replications. the experimental factors comprised of: lillium cultivars, navona (asiatic) and fangio (la), four levels of calcium nitrate (0, 1, 1.5 and 2 mm) in combination with three levels of iba (500, 750 and 1000 ppm) . the...

Proof of concept was obtained that Fe(0) can stoichiometrically reduce nitrate to ammonium and that cathodic hydrogen [produced during anaerobic Fe(0) corrosion by water] can sustain microbial denitrification to reduce nitrate to more innocuous products (i.e., N2O and N2). Autotrophic, denitrifying growth on Fe(0) was proven through the use of a dual-flask apparatus. Cathodic H2 from a flask co...

nickel (ni) is one of the essential micronutrients for higher plants and its known function is beingthe metal component of urease. the effects of various ni levels on urease activity in maize (zea maize l.)plants grown in two nutrient media containing urea or ammonium nitrate as two separate nitrogen sourceswere investigated. the experiments were performed as completely randomized blocks with t...