But the country is already a big importer of phosphates and especially potash.
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Next year should be bountiful: alluvial soil is rich in nitrates and phosphates.
Phosphates also encourage the growth of bacteria, which helps to release arsenic.
Nitrogen and phosphates also are used in feed to make bigger animals.
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The phosphates and nitrates stimulate it whereas the extra sediment suppresses it by trapping nutrients in the beds of such bodies of water.
The team hopes to find within the Martian soil chemicals such as phosphates that are capable of preserving signs of life on Mars.
Phoslock, a modified clay product, is being sprayed into Cromes Broad at How Hill reserve to lock away phosphates which cause algae to bloom.
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By using easily obtainable cobalt and phosphates, the MIT work could make it a lot more viable to obtain hydrogen directly from solar cells.
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Instead, we embraced super-phosphates and in more recent times large-scale irrigation.
Environmentalists got phosphates out of laundry detergent in the late 1980s.
Big mining companies are also interested in phosphates and potash because they are generally extracted from the sort of huge mines that are their bread and butter.
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Nauru is a Pacific island composed largely of phosphates.
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Small enough to fit in the bed of a large pickup truck, the Ferrator strips electrons from iron atoms to make ferrate--an unstable molecule that bonds to and neutralizes heavy metals, phosphates and bacteria.
Griesing's organization vigorously fought the move to phosphate-free until Washington State passed a law in March 2006 limiting the amount of phosphates in household dishwasher detergent sold in that state to 0.5%, or a trace amount, effective July 1, 2010 (in most of the state).
Levels of phosphates in fresh waterways can be much higher than normal because of contamination from municipal and domestic wastewater, whether you're hooked up to a sewer or have a septic system, says Helen Suh MacIntosh, an associate professor in environmental health at Harvard University.
By adding cobalt and phosphates to water and passing a mild current through the solution with a glass electrode, Matthew Kanan and Daniel Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were able to break water apart and force oxygen to bubble to the surface.
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Back then, the Soap and Detergent Association got an allowance for up to 8.7% phosphate content in dishwasher detergent in state legislation covering laundry detergent, based on its claim that phosphates were needed to clean dishes that had been used for starchy foods, like macaroni and cheese.
Algae also offer the potential of aiding in the curbing of CO2 emissions from power stations and cement factories, and in cleaning nitrates and phosphates from agricultural runoff water and effluent from sewage plants, while simultaneously furnishing useful fuels such as biodiesel and ethanol according to how the algae are processed.
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