what is atmospheric fixation and how fixation takes place?
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What is the Nitrogen Cycle ? Approximately 78% of air is Nitrogen. Nitrogen is important to life because it is a key part of amino and nucleic acids. Also, it is an important part of ATP, which is the basic energy molecule for living things. Neither plants or animals can obtain nitrogen directly from the atmosphere. Instead, they depend on a process known as nitrogen fixation.
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- Nitrogen fixation is of two types 1  : Non Biological Fixation.  Atmospheric nitrogen fixation (or Natural) by lightning:- It contributes about 10% of the total nitrogen fixation.Usually atmospheric nitrogen fixation (or Natural) by lightning occurs in rainy season during lightning or thunder storms.
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- Eventually the CO 2 is handed on to, and refixed by, the Calvin cycle. C4 pathway A pathway of carbon fixation, found most commonly in tropical plants that have high rates of growth and photosynthesis and that are adapted to high temperatures, strong light, low carbon dioxide levels, and low water supply.
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Fixation Meaning Updated May 06, 2016. A fixation is a persistent focus of the id’s pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier stage of psychosexual development. These fixations occur when an issue or conflict in a psychosexual stage remains unresolved, leaving the individual focused on this stage and unable to move onto the next.
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- The troposphere is where most weather processes take place.Almost all land-dwelling life forms are found in the bottom 5 kilometers (3 miles) of the atmosphere. At higher altitudes, the thin atmosphere and harsh conditions are inhospitable to most living organisms.
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- the rotation period of the Sun, the nature of the solar cycle, the existence of differential rotation and possible influences of the solar cycle on terrestrial climate. The basic observation is extremely simple. Any telescope can be arranged to project an image of the Sun onto a screen so that the positions of the spots can be indicated.
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Carbon dioxide Carbon fixation is a biochemical process by which atmospheric carbon dioxide is incorporated by plants, algae and (cyanobacteria) into energy-rich organic molecules such as glucose, thus creating their own food by photosynthesis.arbon dioxide exists in the Earth's atmosphere as a trace gas at a concentration of about 0.04 percent (400 ppm) by volume.
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The Chemistry of Weather: Condensation and Evaporation They then escape the surface of the liquid and become a gas (water vapor), which then rises into the atmosphere. This process of water evaporating from the surface of the Earth happens continually and continually transports water vapor into the air. The rate of evaporation depends on air temperature, wind speed, cloudiness.
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Nitrogen fixation Nitrogen fixation is a process by which nitrogen in the Earth's atmosphere is converted into ammonia or other molecules available to living organisms. Atmospheric nitrogen or molecular dinitrogen is relatively inert: it does not easily react with other chemicals to form new compounds. The fixation process frees nitrogen atoms from their triply bonded diatomic form, N≡N, to be used in other ways. Nitrogen fixation is essential for some forms of life because inorganic nitrogen compounds are ...
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Carbon Fixated Carbon fixation is a process found in autotrophs (organisms that produce their own food), usually driven by photosynthesis, whereby carbon dioxide is changed into organic materials. Carbon fixation can also be carried out by the process of calcification in marine, calcifying organisms such as Emiliania huxleyi.
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How is nitrogen fixed? Breakdown of atmospheric nitrogen into simple forms of nitrogen compounds that plants can assimilate by the bacterias like Rhizobium present in the root nodules of the plants … is known as nitrogen fixation.
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- Atmospheric Windows. The absorbtion by various constituents in the atmosphere results in limiting portions of the electromagnetic radiation from reaching the Earth. For remote sensing, this limits us to portions of the electromagnetic spectrum where radiation is not strongly absorbed.
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- Condensation is the formation of liquid drops of water from water vapor. It is the process which creates clouds, and so is necessary for rain and snow formation as well. Condensation in the atmosphere usually occurs as a parcel of rising air expands and cools to the point where some of the water vapor molecules clump together faster than they are torn apart from their thermal energy. A very important part of this process is the release of the latent heat of condensation.
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Definitions &Translations Fixation. Fixation in alchemy refers to a process by which a previously volatile substance is transformed into a form that is not affected by fire. It separates the substance or object and puts it back in the same or different shape at a subatomic level.
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- plants and animals are not adapted to absorb nitrogen from the air. Nitrogen Fixation is a process where nitrogen is changed into a more reactive form for plants and animals t … o use. There are several ways where nitrogen fixation can happen: lightning, bacteria, carnivorous plants and industrial fixation.
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Atmospheric entry Atmospheric entry is the movement of an object from outer space into and through the gases of an atmosphere of a planet, dwarf planet or natural satellite.
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Carbon fixation Carbon fixation or сarbon assimilation refers to the conversion process of inorganic carbon (carbon dioxide) to organic compounds by living organisms.The most prominent example is photosynthesis, although chemosynthesis is another form of carbon fixation that can take place in the absence of sunlight.Organisms that grow by fixing carbon are called autotrophs.he most prominent example is photosynthesis, although chemosynthesis is another form of carbon fixation that can take place in the absence of sunlight. Organisms that grow by fixing carbon are called autotrophs.
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How are the months in a year divided in to four seasons? Rather surprisingly, this has become a somewhat controversial question in Britain and other countries around the world. But, the astronomical seasons are based around the dates of the equinoxes and solstices. There are two equinoxes (when the day and night are of equal length) these are around the 21st March and 21st September.
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The Nitrogen Cycle Because of the greater amount of proteins required by land species, Nitrogen is usually the element which will limit the vigour of their communities. The Nitrogen Cycle Step 1: Nitrogen-Fixation Refers to the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen, which is extremely inert, into water soluble forms that can be used by living things. Atmospheric: Happens when Nitrogen (N2) is oxidized at high temperatures (by lightning, in internal combustion engines) to make nitrite (NO2).
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- Atmospheric pressure is the pressure exerted by the weight of air in the atmosphere of Earth (or that of another planet). In most circumstances atmospheric pressure is closely approximated by the hydrostatic pressure caused by the weight of air above the measurement point. On a given plane, low-pressure areas have less atmospheric mass above their location, whereas high-pressure areas have more atmospheric mass above their location.
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Nitrogen Fixation Three processes are responsible for most of the nitrogen fixation in the biosphere: 1  atmospheric fixation by lightning. 2  industrial fixation. 3  biological fixation by certain microbes — alone or in a symbiotic relationship with some plants and animals.
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- Fixation is the conversion of gaseous nitrogen to ammonia or nitrate. The most common kind of fixation is biological fixation which is carried out by a variety of organisms, including blue-green algae, the soil bacteria Azobacter, and the association of legume plants and the bacteria Rhizobium. Additionally, nitrogen can be fixed by some inorganic processes. For example, high-energy fixation occurs in the atmosphere as a result of lightning, cosmic radiation, and meteorite trails. Atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen combine to form nitrous oxides (NO x), which fall to the earth as nitrate.
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- Matter is constantly cycled between living and nonliving parts of the environment. Processes like photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation allow the carbon and nitrogen cycles to regenerate needed substances by recycling earth's atoms. CLEP Natural Sciences: Study Guide & Test Prep / Science Courses.
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- Lightning may also indirectly transform atmo-. spheric nitrogen into nitrates, which rain onto soil. Quantifying the rate of natural nitrogen fixation. prior to human alterations of the cycle is difficult but. necessary for evaluating the impacts of human-driven. changes to the global cycling of nitrogen. The standard. unit of measurement for analyzing the global nitrogen.
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Fixation (chemistry) The process in which a substance is removed from the gaseous or solution phase and localized, as in carbon dioxide fixation; The chemical removal of all undeveloped salts of the film emulsion, leaving only the developed silver forming a permanent image