nitrates nitrites

Reduces nitrate to nitrite. This reaction can take place in any part of the plant body. Nitrate reductase is a flavoprotein and contains molybden..

The common name of potassium nitrate is Bengal salt petre or nitre. It can be prepared by treating the oxide, hydroxide, carbonate or hydrogen carbonate salts of potassium with nitric acid. It is a colorless crystalline solid, soluble in water. When heated, it first melts and then decomp..

The common name of sodium nitrate is "Chile salt Petre". It is found in large quantity in Chile in South America. It can be prepared by treating the oxide, hydroxide, carbonate or hydrogen carbonate salts of sodium with nitric acid. It is a colorless crystalline solid, highly soluble in ..

Potassium Nitrate - The common name of potassium nitrate is Bengal salt petre or nitre. It can be prepared by treating the oxide, hydroxide, carbonate or hydrogen carbonate salts of potassium with nitric acid. It is a colorless crystalline solid, soluble in water. When heated, i..

Iodo alkanes on treatment with alcoholic AgNO 2 gives 80% of nitroalkanes and 20% alkyl nitrites...

Nitrogen exists in the free and in the combined form in the atmosphere of the earth. In the free state it occupies about 80% by volume of air. In the combined form, it is present as ammonia and all ammonium compounds, in nitric acid and in all nitrates, nitrites and in all livi..

0.3% is used by the producers in the process of photosynthesis as a raw material. Nitrogen is a chemically inert gas (78%) but can be used to form nitrites and nitrates under electric discharges (non-biological) or by nitrogen fixing bacteria, and Nostoc (biological N 2 fixati..

Nitrogen is obtained from the soil in the form of nitrates (NO 2 - ), nitrites (NO 3 - ) and ammonium (NH 4 + ) sal..

It is the process of conversion of ammonia to nitrates. It is accomplished by nitrifying bacteria like nitrosomonas, nitrosococcus and nitrobacter . Ammonia is first converted to nitrite ions and then to nitrate ions as given belo..

>The nitric oxide so formed then reacts with more oxygen to form nitrogen dioxide. Nitrogen dioxide so formed, gets washed down by rain and forms nitrates and nitrites in the soil. Plants absorb these of nitrates and nitrites from the soil and convert them in..