and those amino acids and proteins are used to make and maintain other organisms like ………. us, humans. So, convinced that nitrogen’ s important? Good.
My cruise banana. It’ s been with me on all my research cruises for the past 18 years. @ Jeremy Young
The‘ Cave’ @ Jeremy Young
However, I have plenty of music and my cruise banana to keep me company whilst I run my experiments. These basically involve adding tracer chemicals to seawater( collected in special water bottles), incubating the seawater( see photo below), filtering the seawater( lots of filtering), adding some chemicals which react with the nitrogen compounds to form an orangy-red dye and then filtering the seawater again to take out the dye( see photo below). The dye removed from the seawater will then be measured back on land to see now much nitrogen has gone from one chemical form to another due to being used by the plankton.
Experimental bottles in the incubator @ Jeremy Young
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