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disease · 3 months
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NITROGEN | INTOXICA | CD, 1997 [RICHARD H. KIRK] – ALPHACD1
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Round 3 - Matchup 10
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Nitrogen 7 (N) - 78% of the earth's atmosphere as the diatomic N2, the most abundant uncombined element.
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Copper 29 (Cu) - It's a cool colour! It's antimicrobial! It oxidises into a cool green colour! Also great for moving electricity around inside stuff!
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cacartoon · 5 months
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Gold
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railroadlion · 9 months
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Escape from Maxwell’s Demon Volcano
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catfindr · 1 year
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reasonsforhope · 9 months
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"In Washington D.C., a sophisticated sewage treatment plant is turning the capital’s waste into a form of capital: living capital that is fertilizing the gardens of farms of the Mid-Atlantic region and saving vast quantities of resources.
Described by the workers’ there as a “resource recovery plant,” D.C. Water run a biogas plant and high-quality fertilizer production in the course of their dirty duty to ensure the city’s waste finds a safe endpoint.
The nation’s capital is exceptional at producing waste from the toilet bowls of the 2.2 million people who live, work, and commute through the city and its suburbs.
Reporting by Lina Zeldovich reveals that rather than trucking it all to a landfill, D.C. Water extract an awful lot of value from the capital crap, by looking at it as a resource to send through the world’s largest advanced wastewater treatment plant, which uses a “thermal hydrolysis process” in which it is sterilized, broken down, and shipped off for processing into “Bloom,” a nitrogen-rich, slow-release fertilizer product. 
The other “Black Gold”
At their facility in southwest Washington, huge aeration tanks percolate the poo of everyone from tourists to the President. After it’s all fed into enormous pressure cookers where, under the gravity of six earth atmospheres and 300°F, the vast black sludge is rendered harmless.
Next this “Black Gold,” as Zeldovich described it, is pumped into massive bacterial-rich tanks where microbes breakdown large molecules like fats, proteins, and carbs into smaller components, shrinking the overall tonnage of sewage to 450 tons per day down from 1,100 at the start of the process.
This mass-micro-munching also produces methane, which when fed into an onsite turbine, generates a whopping 10 megawatts of green energy which can power 8,000 nearby homes. [Note: Natural gas (which is mostly methane) is definitely greener than coal and oil, but it still causes a significant amount of emissions and greenhouse gases.] The 450 tons of remaining waste from the D.C. feces are sent into another room where conveyor belts ring out excess fluid before feeding it through large rollers which squash it into small congregate chunks.
D.C. Water sends this to another company called Homestead Gardens for drying, aging, and packaging before it’s sold as Bloom.
“I grow everything with it, squashes, tomatoes, eggplants,” Bill Brower, one of the plant’s engineers, tells Zeldovich. “Everything grows great and tastes great,” he adds.
“And I’m not the only one who thinks so. We’ve heard from a lot of people that they’ve got the best response they’ve ever seen from the plants. Particularly with leafy greens because that nitrogen boost does well with leafy plants. And the plants seem to have fewer diseases and fewer pests around—probably because Bloom helps build healthy soils.”
While farms around the country are facing nutrient depletion in soils from over-farming, turning to synthetic fertilizers to make up the difference, introducing more such thermal hydrolysis plants could truly revolutionize the way humans look at their feces—as a way of restoring the country’s soils rather than polluting them. As Mike Rowe would say, it only takes a person who’s willing to get their hands dirty."
-via Good News Network, November 23, 2021
Note: You can buy this fertilizer yourself here!
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berosgarden · 6 months
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headshot icons with the elements 1-9 from this
In order: Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine
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whats-in-a-sentence · 4 months
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Elemental nitrogen finds extensive use in its liquid form as a coolant; liquid nitrogen (figure 14.9) boils at -196 °C at atmospheric pressure.
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"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.
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globish · 5 months
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Researchers use nitrogen-based compounds as new high-performance energy storage materials
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have synthesized unique scandium polynitrides under extreme conditions, with exotic chemistry and potential applications as high-energy-density materials. High-energy density materials (HEDMs) are pivotal in various applications due to their superior energetic performance, which includes high detonation velocity, detonation pressure, and energy storage capacity. Their application in space exploration as rocket propellants and in defense as explosives is of critical importance for modern society. The unique chemical properties of these materials, such as the ability to store vast amounts of energy in a relatively small volume, make them indispensable for advancing technology in areas requiring high-power outputs and compact energy storage solutions.
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dustbeloved · 1 year
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1. Happy Lantern Festival! 元宵节快乐 >v<
Oxygen [奥希] in Hanfu. I made it into a fake journal page as I’d really like to draw Tanghulu (a rock sugar coated fruit snack) The apples & melons are scooped into round shape, and bunny ears are cut out. The eyes are made of black sesame. :p
The gradient on her dress is inspired by Oxygen’s various allotropes (especially liquid ozone).
2. Aurora / Nitrogen [诺] & Oxygen [奥希]
I drew this back in early 2020 *feeling nostalgic*. Aurora is due to electronic transition of oxygen and nitrogen at high altitudes.
Atomic oxygen at high altitudes emit red light (~630nm). At slightly lower altitudes, energy is transferred from molecular nitrogen to oxygen via collisions, emitting green light (~555.7nm) At lower altitude molecular & ionised N2 gives blue & red light.
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disease · 3 months
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NITROGEN (RICHARD H. KIRK) LIFE DETECTOR | INTOXICA, 1997
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unanchored-ship · 3 months
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more atoooooms
these designs are very random (not so much carbon) but parts of them do have explanations which i am too tired to say at the moment
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railroadlion · 9 months
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I have a few questions about Schrodinger Von Cat (love his design btw! ❤️)
1. What is his role in the story?
2. What does Schrodinger's cat have to do with the theme of the show?
Excellent questions! Allow me to answer them under this art I made of Schrodinger and the main gang eating fast food~
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(also surprise, Schrodinger is huge compared to all the other catoms lol)
1. I'd want the first story introducing Schrödinger to be about the gang showing him that life is a lot less scary when you can learn to relax with friends. But after all the fun is over, he gets himself into a bafflingly huge mess when nobody's looking, and they have to figure out what makes him so mysteriously accident prone.
2. Catoms' core themes are the foundational principals of scientific progress: to withhold bias, to be cooperative, and to be incredibly curious! It's a show about solving problems and helping those around you, and Schrödinger needs all the help in the world getting over his fears when they first meet him.
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Have you ever made ice cream using liquid nitrogen before? It’s really fun!
Yes I have.
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That container is used to transport liquid nitrogen in the laboratory.
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Round 8 - Pnictogens & Chalcogens
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