Nitrogen

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Christy P

 

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February 11, 2012

 

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They include the nitrogen from amino acids and proteins and release the excess nitrogen in the form of ammonium ions. The next part of this cycle is the oxidation of ammonium, also called nitrification. This step takes the nitrogen compound, in this case ammonia, and oxidizes it into nitrite and nitrate...
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This is a two step process. First the ammonium is oxidized into nitrite and then the nitrite is oxidized into nitrate. Nitrite is toxic, therefore, nitrate is the form that almost all nitrogen is absorbed by most crop plants grown on dry land; 2NH4 (ammonium) + 3O2 (Oxygen) ?2NO-2(Nitrite) + 4H+ (hydrogen) + 2H2O...
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