The research team observed a 22.1% increase in yield from the rice plants treated with zinc oxide nanoparticles compared to ...

is considering making zinc oxide or sulfate at its Lone Mountain mine project in Eureka, Nevada. The type of ore at the site would be easy to process into fertilizer-grade products, which may ...

A small team of horticulturists in China and the U.S. has found that spraying rice plants with a zinc oxide nanoparticle solution helps them better handle the stress of a heat wave. In their study, ...

When inorganic fertilizer is applied to a field, microbes in the soil can convert some of its nitrogen to nitrous oxide (N 2 O), a gas with a very high greenhouse warming potential — 1 kilogram ...

Researchers have made a potentially groundbreaking discovery: zinc can increase the rate at which certain plants absorb fertilizer from the soil. If this is put into practice on farm fields ...

Ammonia is used in a wide range of applications, by far the largest of which is as a fertilizer for agriculture ... is that low amounts of nitrous oxide may be produced when ammonia is burned.

The semiconductor used here is zinc oxide (zincite), which is obtained by taking a strip of zinc and heating it with a blow torch. This creates spots of zinc oxide on the strip, which can then be ...

The production and use of chemical fertilizers contribute to a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions such as nitrous oxide and are often energy-intensive as they employ ... Both the metals ...

Taha claims to have developed an environmentally sensitive, efficient, and cost-effective process to separate aluminium from dross, and produce fertilizer from the aluminium oxide residue. To achieve ...

Agricultural production accounted for 74 percent of human-driven nitrous oxide emissions in the 2010s—attributed primarily to the use of chemical fertilizers and animal waste on croplands—according to ...

After comparing their results, the researchers concluded that soil treated with manure or compost fertilizer stores more carbon than soil treated with chemical fertilizers or no fertilizer.