Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen. — Fritz Haber Copy Share Image
“I regard breathing industrial gas to be as harmful as heavy smoking.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat. — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle - all of these are linked to the existence of… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“Asking someone else to drive your sports car is like asking someone else to kiss your girlfriend.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
…oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth,” Ben reads. “The iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple… — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
“During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“My memories of my time in high altitude astronomy indicate that there were no oxygen concentration monitors or alarms in the areas… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now -… — Lennart Nilsson Copy Share Image
From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“A small bubble of air remained unabsorbed... if there is any part of the phlogisticated air [nitrogen] of our atmosphere which differs… — Henry Cavendish Copy Share Image
In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
“In high altitude astronomical facilities we routinely discharged large amounts of nitrogen gas into closed spaces. We were never informed by the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
“The nitrogen cycle is a kind of miracle. The nitrogen cycle requires bears. Brown bears catch salmon in streams and rivers. Then… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
I believe that at the moment of death, that the soul is released in a molecular form, that actually goes into the… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“One of my astronomy managers used to tell me that liquid nitrogen was harmless and was just liquid air. He would pour… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere… — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
We have an atmosphere that is roughly 21% oxygen. The rest of it is largely nitrogen. There's just enough carbon dioxide (CO2)… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“When I worked in astronomy, I routinely observed young college and university students working with liquid nitrogen and breathing nitrogen gas as… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We need to go back to our relationship with nature and understand that those trees are our lungs. The earth is recycling… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world's population was around 2 billion. When we no longer have it - or… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one’s ignorance in the face… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image