We’ve long understood the broad strokes of lightning, but the what kickstarts the process—and allows for some of its weirdest ...

Since the mid-1900s, humans have been exerting an ever-increasing impact on the global nitrogen cycle. Human activities, such as making fertilizers and burning fossil fuels, have significantly ...

There’s a good chance you owe your existence to the Haber-Bosch process. This industrial chemical reaction between hydrogen and nitrogen produces ammonia, the key ingredient to synthetic fertilizers ...

It's through a process called nitrogen fixation. Earth's atmosphere is mostly comprised of nitrogen. The remainder is 21% oxygen, roughly 1% argon and other trace amounts of gases.

Does lightning enhance nitrogen in soil?Author: KING Staff Published: 1:39 PM PDT May 20, 2010 Updated: 1:39 PM PDT May 20, 2010 ...

Taking inspiration from how nature —including lightning — produces ammonia, a team led by the University at Buffalo has developed a reactor that produces the chemical commodity from nitrogen ...

The lightning from thunderstorms is one possible origin. This produces a relatively small amount of nitrates today but might have been important early in Earth’s history. The famous Miller-Urey ...

There are three explanations for why any particular bolt of lightning is a given color, but they all come back to one thing, atmospheric chemistry. Earth's atmosphere is 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen ...

The lightning in thunderstorms, brought about by ice particles colliding and charging, separates nitrogen molecules every day, but at low rates and spread out over large areas.

At the beginning of the XXᵉ century, two chemists succeeded in fixing nitrogen in the air. Their invention saw the birth of intensive agriculture, gravely disrupting the nitrogen cycle.

Taking inspiration from how nature — including lightning — produces ammonia, a UB-led team has developed a reactor that produces the chemical commodity from nitrogen in the air and water, without any ...