Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Catalytic Converters for your lawn?

Soil emissions are much-bigger-than-expected component of air pollution, about 22% of the total. In retrospect, it is not such a surprising find since bacterialogical processes convert ammonia nitrogen into nitrates (and nitrates into nitrogen).

Well, I guess that's why there isn't as much photochemical smog in the desert.

Found on Junk Science ,

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