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Query:

Subject: What is the energy cost of Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer?

Date: Thu Apr 1 22:59:54 1999
Posted by Richard Iverson
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: Worthing State/Province: SD Country: USA
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 923029194.Ch
Message:

Corn is grown with the aid of ammonium nitrate fertilizer.  
Typically about 150lbs of fixed nitrogen is needed to produce 
150 bushels of corn per acre. How much natural gas (a non 
renewable resource) is used to produce a pound of ammonium 
nitrate fertilizer?


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