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Ammonia occurs in nature and has been detected in the interstellar medium. In many countries, it is classified as an extremely hazardous substance. [15] Ammonia is produced biologically in a process called nitrogen fixation, but even more is generated industrially by the Haber process. The process helped revolutionize agriculture by providing ...
Ammonia is toxic to aquatic life which leads to increased amounts of fish deaths. [6] Ammonia pollution also leads to eutrophication. Eutrophication is the growth of algae that kills other aquatic life and creates dead zones. Ammonia pollution affects freshwater and salt water ecosystems differently due to physical and chemical differences.
Some people insulate their pipes, some wrap with heat tape. Others let their faucets drip a little to prevent frozen pipes. Use battery-powered lights and flashlights, and have back-up batteries.
A major winter storm is expected to deliver heavy snow, ice and rain across much of the U.S. this weekend into Monday, affecting areas from the Plains to the mid-Atlantic East Coast. The system ...
When a winter storm is on the way, everyone rushes to the grocery store. If you don't join them quickly, the shelves could be bare by the time those first flurries fall. You'll probably buy extra ...
A large kang shared by the guests of a one-room inn in a then-wild area east of Tonghua, Jilin, as seen by Henry E.M. James in 1887. The kang (Chinese: 炕; pinyin: kàng; Manchu: nahan, Kazakh: кән) is a traditional heated platform, 2 metres or more long, used for general living, working, entertaining and sleeping in the northern part of China, where the winter climate is cold.
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[4] [5] It is the fourth-largest risk factor overall for human health [6] and in 2018, WHO estimated that "9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants." [ 7 ] Outdoor particulate pollution ( PM2.5 ) is the largest cause of death (4 million), followed by indoor air pollution (over 2 million) and ozone (0.4 million).