Alex Shoumatoff

The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.

American Writer

Phil Gingrey

For the life of me, I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite, in those holes and detonate that dynamite and seal that - seal that leak. And seal it permanently.

American Politician

Martin Scorsese

I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.

American Director

John F. Kerry

If we don't preserve the oceans from nitrate runoff and plastic and chemicals, and if we don't preserve it from acidification, and if we don't preserve it from grotesque overfishing - too much money chasing too few fish - we're going to have the most massive ecosystem on the planet in peril.

Dean Ornish

In our experience, when people make comprehensive lifestyle changes, they usually can reduce or discontinue medications such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, anti-hypertensives, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, nitrates, insulin, and so on.

American Educator

Norman Borlaug

As far as plants are concerned, they can't tell whether that nitrate ion comes from artificial chemicals or from decomposed organic matter.

American Scientist

Kary Mullis

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Used technically within a scientific or agricultural context to discuss nutrients or compounds.

Scientific Usage

Excessive nitrates can lead to environmental issues like water pollution.

Environmental Concern

Can indicate potential health implications if found in drinking water.

Health Impact

Awareness of nitrates in food is common among those choosing healthier options.

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Associated with cured or preserved meats; sometimes considered unhealthy.

Processed Foods

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Label Reading

Highlights the dangerous properties and the need for careful handling.

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Emergency Services

 and doing some rather unpleasant things. The first one is to do with the pressure of population. Such is the pressure of population around the world that agriculture and farming is required to produce more and more crops. Now, to do that, farmers put more and more chemicals onto the land. They put on fertilizers, nitrates, pesticides --

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 This was some of our other testing. Nitrates are very high at the top of the river, this is probably blowing in from China, from fertilizer. You can see the temperature basically steadily drop and this is oxygen, the main one. So you see the river try to come back to life, which is unusual, but it slowly,

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 and bonded it to hydrogen to form ammonia. Ammonia can then be injected into the soil, where it is quickly converted into nitrate. But if Haber's process was going to be used to feed the world, he would need to find a way to create a lot of this ammonia quickly and easily. In order to understand

The chemical reaction...

 in such a short time? The answer lies in chemistry. Your cold pack contains water and a solid compound, usually ammonium nitrate, in different compartments separated by a barrier. When the barrier is broken, the solid dissolves causing what's known as an endothermic reaction,

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 to walk into a drug store and buy chemicals. Nowadays, it's no ma'am, check your shoes. And like -- But then it wasn't -- they didn't have any, but the guy had -- I said, what kind of salts of potassium do you have? You know. And he had potassium nitrate.

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 Antimicrobial nitrates and nitrites, often found in cured meats, ward off the bacteria that cause botulism, but they may cause other health problems. Some studies linking cured meats to cancer have suggested that these preservatives may be the culprit.

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 we have huge stores not of nitric oxide because nitric oxide is a gas and it's released and in a few seconds it's away but it can be turned into these forms of nitric oxide nitrate no3 nitrite no.2 might raise with us and these are more

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 First, Golgi hardened the brain tissue with potassium bichromate to prevent cells from deforming during handling. Then he doused the tissue in silver nitrate, which visibly accumulated in nerve cells. Known as the “black reaction,”

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 Another wartime technology, the chemical explosive ammonium nitrate, also found new life on the farm. With this new synthetic fertilizer, farmers could plant dense fields of corn year after year,

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 Naturally occurring bacteria grow on these surfaces, which helps convert the toxic ammonium in the water into nitrites and then nitrates. Nitrates are basically plant food.