Nitrogen cycle chemistry

There has been a great deal of research on the combustion of small hydrocarbons, including nitrogen-cycle chemistry leading to nitric-oxide formation and abatement [138]. There are a number of methane-air reaction mechanisms that have been developed and validated [274,276,278], the most popular one being GRI-Mech [366]. There is also active research on the kinetics of large hydrocarbon combustion [81,88,171,246,328-330,426]. 

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Boggs, J. L. (2005). Tree growth, foliar chemistry, and nitrogen cycling across a nitrogen deposition gradient in southern Appalachian deciduous forests. Can. J. Forest Res. Rev. Can. Recherche Forestiere 35(8), 1901-1913. 

Nitric oxide (NO), nitrous oxide (N2O), dinitrogen (N2), and ammonia (NH3) are constituents of the Earth s atmosphere. They play important roles in the chemistry and climate of the present-day Earth. Moreover, they are intermediates of the oceanic nitrogen cycle. In contrast to most of the other components of the oceanic nitrogen cycle, they exist as dissolved gaseous molecules. Being gases they can be transferred across the seasurface-troposphere interface. 

Lee. Y. N.. Senum, G. I., and Gaffney, J. S Peroxyacatyl nitrate (PAN) stability, solubility, and reactivity-implications for tropospheric nitrogen cycles and precipitation chemistry. Int. Conf. Comm. Atmos. Chem. Global Pollut., Symp. Trop. Chem. Oxford, England, 5 th, 1983. 

Kinetics is being employed increasingly to study the soil chemistry of carbon, nitrogen, potassium, phosphate, and trace metals. The soil reactions of these elements are often slow enough to be experimentally measurable. Because carbon and nitrogen cycle back and forth between soil, water, plants, animals, and atmosphere faster than... 

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Altabet MA (2005) Isotopic tracers of the marine nitrogen cycle Present and past. In Hutzinger O (ed.) The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Vol. 2 Marine Organic Matter Chemical and Biological Markers, pp. 251-294. Berlin Springer. 

One can extend this cycle chemistry by putting electricity to use. In short, it is possible to accomplish electrolytic reduction of nitrogen and to develop the phenomenon into a cycle (Figure 3). Thus, we have achieved true catalytic electrolytic conversion of nitrogen to ammonia, by means of a process based on the behavior of titanium. This system was initiated at Stanford by Akermark (14) and developed by Seeley (J5). 

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