13.2 Environmental Consequence of Using Nitrogen Compounds Excessive use of nitrate fertilisers When excessive nitrate or ammonium fertilisers are used, the unabsorbed ones will dissolve in rain water and it leaches into lakes and rivers An excess of these...
13.3 Sulfur Compounds Uses and formation of sulfur dioxide, SO2 and its consequences Atmospheric sulfur dioxide is formed during the burning of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels like coal and oil all contain sulfur compounds, and when the coal or the oil product are...
13.1 Nitrogen Compounds The lack of reactivity of nitrogen Nitrogen, N2 exists as a diatomic molecule, two nitrogen atoms are bonded by a triple bond Nitrogen is very unreactive because the bond energy is very high (about +944 kJ mol⁻¹) and reactions involving...
CHAPTER 13: Nitrogen and Sulfur Nitrogen Compounds Environmental Consequences of Using Nitrogen Compounds Sulfur Compounds Learning outcomes: explain the lack of reactivity of nitrogen describe and explain: the basicity of ammonia the structure of the ammonium...