So Coe moved a nitrogen atom, too, and suddenly had a series of compounds to test that did exactly what Pfizer had wanted a drug to do.

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Energy accounts for about three-quarters of the cost of producing nitrogen fertilisers, so cheaper gas and proximity to America's many farmers make Terra an attractive buy.

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The daughter fighting for cremation ran out of money and had to give up the battle, so Ted Williams was suspended in liquid nitrogen.

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Stray-Gundersen worked for the Norwegian Olympic Committee from 1997-2002, sealing bedrooms of the country's top Nordic athletes and adjusting the oxygen and nitrogen content of the air, so they could sleep in a simulated high altitude environment (he was the scientist who developed the concept of living at high altitude to increase hemoglobin levels).

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Fuel cells offer several advantages: they do not have moving parts and there is no burning involved, so there are negligible emissions of environmentally harmful gases like nitrogen, sulfur oxide and carbon monoxide.

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They hired a scientist to come up with a formulation of chemicals that delivered nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus in highly water-soluble form, so that an impatient gardener could give plants an instant shot to the leaves, so to speak.

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Managers said the special rooms will have small amounts of nitrogen piped into them to reduce the oxygen content in the air, so fires cannot start.

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