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The World's Greatest Fix: A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture
In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, this gives the very early history of how human ingenuity overcame the risk of famine through productive agriculture Starting with a layman's guide to the chemistry of nitrogen fixation, the book goes on to show how humans emerged from nomadic lifestyles and began developing towns and settlements. When they for the first time began planting the same fields year after year, they noticed quickly the need to ensure soil fertility. But how? The method they came up with is still in use to this day..
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The Nitrogen Murder: A Periodic Table Mystery (Periodic Table Mysteries)
In the latest installment of this fun, fast-paced series, retired physicist Gloria Lamerino and her fiancé, homicide detective Matt Gennaro, attend the wedding of Gloria's best friend in California. Unfortunately, the groom has disappeared along with some top-secret research on nitrogen.As Gloria and Matt try to figure out a connection between the missing groom and the absent classified nitrogen research, the body count rises. .
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Natural Systems for Wastewater Treatment (WEF Manual of Practice Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice, No. 16) (Manual of Practice. Fd, No. 16.)
The wastewater treatment processes described in this Manual of Practice (MOP) include soil-based and aquatic systems. The common element in all of these systems is the major contribution made by the "natural" environmental components, which provide the desired treatment. In general, these responses by the vegetation, soil, micororganisms (terrestrial and aquatic),and, to a limited extent, higher animal life proceed at their "natural" rates..
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Phosphorus and Nitrogen Removal from Municipal Wastewater: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition
This valuable new book offers practical guidance regarding the design and operation of systems for reducing effluent nitrogen and phosphorus. The principles of nitrogen and phosphorus removal are discussed, including sources of nitrogen and phosphorus in wastewater, removal options, nitrogen and phosphorus transformations in treatment, process selection, and treatment. The book also covers the design and operation of nitrogen and phosphorus removal systems, including system options, system design, facility design, facility costs, and operation. Practical case studies are provided as examples of successful system implementations that may be able to help you decide what will work best in your plant..
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Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, space flight, or television. The expansion of the world's population from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to today's six billion would not have been possible without the synthesis of ammonia. In Enriching the Earth, Vaclav Smil begins with a discussion of nitrogen's unique status in the biosphere, its role in crop production, and traditional means of supplying the nutrient. He then looks at various attempts to expand natural nitrogen flows through mineral and synthetic fertilizers. The core of the book is a detailed narrative of the discovery of ammonia synthesis by Fritz Haber -- a discovery scientists had sought for over one hundred years -- and its commercialization by Carl Bosch and the chemical company BASF. Smil also examines the emergence of the large-scale nitrogen fertilizer industry and analyzes the extent of global dependence on the Haber-Bosch process and its biospheric consequences. Finally, it looks at the role of nitrogen in civilization and, in a sad coda, describes the lives of Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch after the discovery of ammonia synthesis..
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