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An occasional cause of accidental death in humans, inert gas asphyxia has been used as a suicide method. Inert gas asphyxia has been advocated by proponents of euthanasia, using a gas-retaining plastic hood device colloquially referred to as a suicide bag. Nitrogen asphyxiation has been approved in some places as a method of capital punishment.
Nitrogen deficiency is a deficiency of nitrogen in plants. This can occur when organic matter with high carbon content, such as sawdust, is added to soil. [1] Soil organisms use any nitrogen available to break down carbon sources, making nitrogen unavailable to plants. [1] This is known as "robbing" the soil of nitrogen. All vegetables apart ...
Nitrogen washout (or Fowler's method) is a test for measuring anatomic dead space in the lung during a respiratory cycle, as well as some parameters related to the closure of airways. Procedure [ edit ]
Alabama is the only state that has developed a protocol for nitrogen gas. Lawmakers had introduced it as a more "humane" substitute for lethal injections that would not require officers to insert ...
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Some solutions to combat the release of nitrous oxide from wastewater treatment could be to use aerobically denitrifying organisms with the capacity to fully reduce nitrogen. [5] For instance, P. denitrificans has shown to efficiently reduce nitrate to N 2 in cultured media and wastewater. [ 10 ]
Human activities account for over one-third of N 2 O emissions, most of which are due to the agricultural sector. [2] This article is intended to give a brief review of the history of anthropogenic N inputs, and reported impacts of nitrogen inputs on selected terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
About 40% of human-caused emissions are from agriculture, [11] [12] as nitrogen fertilisers are digested into nitrous oxide by soil micro-organisms. [13] As the third most important greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide substantially contributes to global warming. [14] [15] Reduction of emissions is an important goal in the politics of climate change. [16]