Nitrogen oxide

spreading across the country. With increasing members of society demanding “organic”, it may be time to offer a program specifically for this growing trend. A majority of you already return clippings, use IPM techniques, fertilize with slow release nitrogen, spot treat and minimize pesticide/herbicide applications, which all describe a successful sustainable lawn care program. By offering programs that highlight organic fertilizers during spring applications, you now have the ability to take…

Carbon Dioxide, is a natural occurring chemical compound that consists of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. On Earth carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere from respiration, combustion of coal or hydrocarbons, and respiration. However most of the carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere is removed by organisms that conduct photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the processes in which organisms, such as, plants, algae and cyanobacteria (bacteria that obtain their energy from…

As of September 2016, over 260 million Americans have consumed at least 1 bag of potato chips. This means that at least 24375 tons of chips have been eaten in the past year. However, that calculation would only be true if each bag contained at minimum its labeled amount. When opening a bag of chips, it is easy to assume that the labeled amount is false due to the amount of empty space inside. Thus, the goal of this paper is to explore this idea and document the experimentation that follows in…

constants (complex refractive index n, complex dielectric function ϵ, and reflection and absorption coefficients R and α) of materials are of great importance for optical metrology in the semiconductor industry.1,2 A high-performance complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor process flow with 11 layers of metal requires about 75 photolayers and may contain up to 100 thickness measurements, most of them performed using spectroscopic ellipsometry.3 This technique has been described in various books…

Earth, a planet that once was devoid of human, an organism that destroys anything and everything in its path, is currently infected with it. After a prosperous five billion years, Earth is sinking and anything on it will go down too. Everyday, Earth is suffering from an endless beating of human destruction: forests are mowed for land, coals are burned for energy, and oceans are polluted for space. The consequence doesn 't only hurt the Earth itself but everything on it. Such large-scale…

This is what people refer to when they talk about smog. According to the Webster dictionary, smog is “a photochemical haze caused by the action of solar ultraviolet radiation on atmosphere polluted with hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen especially from automobile exhaust” (Dictionary, 2016). Because of our atmospheric pollution, when smog is present and it begins to rain, the rain traps the chemicals and brings them down to the earth’s water…

interaction between NO and cytochrome oxidase is possible because geochemical studies have demonstrated that nitric oxide could have been present in early earth(15). Interestingly, studies have shown that many cytochrome oxidase subunits are/can be associated with the denitrification process: a process that involves the reduction of nitric oxide(16). Interactions between nitric oxide and cytochrome oxidase have been observed with NO used as an inhibitor of cytochrome oxidase for regulatory…

Recent research shows that AgNPs enhance luminol fluorescence and chemiluminescence by acting as a catalyst with hydrogen peroxide. When AgNPs interact with hydrogen peroxide they cause the peroxide to degrade into superoxide and hydroxyl radical, which also react with luminol to form 3-aminophthalate (Equations 2-5) [13]. The further degradation of hydrogen peroxide into other reactive oxygen species promotes higher fluorescence intensity. Figure 5 shows the increased fluorescence intensity…

The Raman spectra fragments of the sample between 400 and 1400 cm-1 are plotted in Fig. 1. The Raman spectra of mold fluxes display two main regions: one between 600 and 700 cm-1 corresponding to Si–O–Si bending vibrations within inter-tetrahedral linkages and the other between 800 and 1200 cm-1 associated with Si–O stretching vibrations of mainly depolymerized silicate species. Moreover, the Raman peak at ∼550 cm-1 in sample 3 is related to the transverse motion of the bridging oxygen within…

A few weeks later, I had written my book. I had some more mysteries that confused me. 1. Why are people’s marriages so weird? 3. Why was it so difficult to train Sandy? 5. Why did everyone get mad when I decided to practice Physics in the kitchen? I believe that the reason why mother didn’t love my father was because of his aggressive personality. When I didn’t listen to him, he easily lost his temper, but things have changed now. First, father asked mother if she could go out for dinner with…