Why CDOM concentrations are much higher in fresh waters and estuaries than in the open ocean?

CDOM is the colored dissolved organic matter. What makes the fresh water higher in CDOM concentrations than the ocean?

05 June 2019 128 4 View

Why does ammonium concentration inhibit the growth of NOB, although it is not used as their energy source?

Ammonium is neither consumed nor produced in nitrite oxidation, how does ammonium concentration suppress NOB and why?

04 May 2017 6,084 4 View

Any brief and concise explanation of the relationship of Dirac, Kronecker delta, and Heaviside step function?

03 April 2017 9,984 7 View

Is the saturation constant for ammonium in the ASM3 model meant for ammonium-N or both ammonia+ammonium N ?

The half-saturation constant of ammonium in Activated sludge model #3 is given as ammonium, is it for ammonium only or both NH4 +NH3?

01 February 2017 1,441 0 View

Is the activation energy that is calculated from the observations of the maximum growth rate of microorganisms remains constant?

08 September 2016 2,567 1 View

Why is the yield (cell production/ammonium consumption) higher in the Annamox than in nitrification?

Both Annamox bacteria and nitrifiers are slow growers and they both grow on ammonium as their energy source, nitrification is aerobic and annamox is anaerobic , shouldn't the yield in...

10 November 2015 5,353 2 View

What is the reason for adding thiosulphate to a medium containing aerobic denitrifiers like T. Pantotropha?

07 August 2015 7,740 4 View

Why anammox and nitrification need additional electrons for the ammonium reaction?

These two processes are involved in the nitrogen cycle. I wonder why these two pathways need additional electrons !

01 February 2015 4,374 3 View

Can we represent a non-periodic function by a Fourier series?

01 February 2015 3,791 15 View

Can we consider only the kinetics of the nitrite oxidizing bacteria when modelling nitrification pathway?

Since the nitrite produced during the partial nitrification is virtually immediately further nitrified to nitrate. And the rate of conversion of ammonia to nitrite by ammonia oxidizing bacteria is...

01 February 2015 8,124 3 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Does any one can help me choose a reasonable basis set for intermediate metal ions interactions with guanine (i.e Fe2+, Mn2+, Cu2+ and exc.)?

Hello every body Does any one has any idea to help me choose a reasonable basis set for intermediate metal ions (i.e Fe2+, Mn2+, Cu2+ and exc.) interactions with guanine or other DNA organic...

01 March 2021 6,187 2 View

Heat exchanger with liquid Nitrogen as coolant?

I want to cool Natural Gas from 195 Kelvin to 138 Klevin in a heat exchanger by using liquid nitrogen as the coolant medium. When entering the heat exchanger, the liquid nitrogen will have a...

01 March 2021 6,450 5 View

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View

Why does intensity drops as concentration increases?

Is there any reason for decrease in fluorescence emission intensity of HSA,BSA when increase the concentration ?

28 February 2021 3,653 4 View

POlymer+DMSO solution and moisture??

What could be the reason of moisture at the sides of Vial when I am preparing my polmyer+DMSO solution for membrane fabrication? What etiquettes I am possibly missing here?

28 February 2021 6,516 5 View

Should we reduce the standard unit of length to 0.31951540592 meter ?

The reasoning behind this question is to align the ratios of the proton potential in energy per charge to the speed of light in distance per time. As these two dimensions appear to be related,...

27 February 2021 947 7 View

Why do a weight decrease for thermal degradation in nitrogen gas condition?

Hi all The question is related to TGA(Thermogravimetric analysis). Thermal degradation easily understood but why do samples weight decrease? altough just binding is broked, the weight of...

26 February 2021 1,100 5 View

What could be reason for getting such type of graph for complex impedance in case of polymer blend films?

Its effect appears in real part of ac conductivity also. Can anyone suggest any reason behind it?

26 February 2021 3,487 3 View

Steps to calculate activation energy by coats & redfern method?

I'm a chemistry student and I'm researching the kinetic degradation of mixed plastic waste. I'm having trouble calculating the activation energy by the coats & Redfern method. The data that...

24 February 2021 974 1 View