Where does Earth's nitrogen go? Two atoms offer a clue
October 08, 2026
October 08, 2026
LOS ANGELES, California, Oct. 8 -- The University of California posted the following news release:
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Where does Earth's nitrogen go? Two atoms offer a clue
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* Microbes remove usable nitrogen by converting it into nitrogen gas, but measuring this process is difficult because abundant nitrogen gas dissolved from air masks the microbial signal.
* New research uses rare pairs of heavy nitrogen atoms as a natural fingerprint t . . .
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Where does Earth's nitrogen go? Two atoms offer a clue
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* Microbes remove usable nitrogen by converting it into nitrogen gas, but measuring this process is difficult because abundant nitrogen gas dissolved from air masks the microbial signal.
* New research uses rare pairs of heavy nitrogen atoms as a natural fingerprint t . . .