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Fertilizers are usually labeled with three numbers, as in 18-20-10, indicating the relative content of the primary macronutrients nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K), respectively. More precisely, the first number ("N value") is the percentage of elemental nitrogen by weight in the fertilizer; that is, the mass fraction of nitrogen ...
Abu Qir Fertilizers and Chemical Industries Co SAE (ABUK.CA) [3] is a former state-owned company that is one of the largest producers of nitrogen fertilizers in Egypt and the Middle East. [4] It produces about 50% of the Egyptian nitrogen fertilizers. [5] It owns three plants that produce liquid fertiliser, ammonia, urea, and ammonium nitrate. [2]
The construction industry is the number one user of phosphogypsum in 2020, with 10.5 Mt used as concrete set retarder and 3.5 Mt used in drywall. [13] It is also used as a chemical feedstock for producing sulfates , and as a soil conditioner similar to regular gypsum. [ 14 ]
Parts-per notation is often used describing dilute solutions in chemistry, for instance, the relative abundance of dissolved minerals or pollutants in water.The quantity "1 ppm" can be used for a mass fraction if a water-borne pollutant is present at one-millionth of a gram per gram of sample solution.
NPK ratings consist of three numbers separated by dashes (e.g., 10-10-10 or 16-4-8) describing the chemical content of fertilizers. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] The first number represents the percentage of nitrogen in the product; the second number, P 2 O 5 ; the third, K 2 O. Fertilizers do not actually contain P 2 O 5 or K 2 O, but the system is a ...
[1] [2] The factory complex consists of 2 units of TSP fertilizer producing facility with installed capacity of 1,52,000 MT (Unit-1; 32,000 MT and Unit-2; 1,20,000 MT). [3] It was founded by East Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (EPIDC) before the independence of Bangladesh and went into commercial production in 1974. [4]
IMC Global (also known as International Minerals and Chemical Corporation and Imcera) was a mining and production company, formerly listed on the S&P MidCap 400. [2] It was founded in 1909 as International Agricultural Corporation. [3]
[4] [5] Under the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act 1985, the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) declared the Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Limited sick in 1992. Within the next decade, the Indian government concluded that all of its fertilizer production units were incurring heavy losses, and decided ...