Ammonia



All About Ammonia

Have you ever wondered around in the store and saw that clear bottle with the words spelled Ammonia? Ever wondered whats in it, better yet, what exactly is Ammonia? Have you ever wondered what it does to the human body when in contact with the chemicals that are within it? Well Ammonia is no joke. Seeing it and using it is two different things. Precaution, your safety is required.

__**Ammonia In Everyday Life**__ A lot of people who use Ammonia mostly use it for cleaning windows or much less cleaning counter tops. When you see Ammonia its covered with a white cap. But when the white cap is removed, a smell of pungent odor alongside with a corrosive, something harmful, and toxic gas. A lot of people are yet exposed to the chemical smell of Ammonia within their households cleaners. Ammonia is not only a bottle of liquid that may seem safe on the shelf, but harmful after using, but it is a versatile chemical that is found in a few objects that we sometimes not use each day. If you wondered what they are, fertilizers, plastics, chemicals, explosives, and pesticides all have Ammonia within them. Yet, it is used in food that shall be kept inside of refrigerators during process and also in manufacturing industries. But thats not it! Ammonia yet is founded in the atmosphere, the rainwater, volcanoes, fertile soil, and seawater. Due to the chemical being so small in its quantity in its area, theres no threat of it being dangerous.

What happens when ammonia enters the environment? Well ammonia occurs naturally so it is found throughout the enviornment, in soil, air, and water. Most of the ammonia in water changes to ammonium, an odorless liquid, but ammonia and ammonium can change back and forth in water. Ammonia is also recycled naturally in the enviornment as part of the nitrogen cycle but it does not last long in the enviornment.
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__**Ammonia Can Hurt**__ Ammonia is not very harmful but it can cause coughing, and nose and throat irritation. In high concentrations in the air may cause severe burns to your skin, eyes, throat, and lungs. In a more severely extreme case it can cause blindness, lung damage, or even worst death. Okay we now know what can happen if your exposes to low, medium, and high exposure of ammonia in the air but what will happen if you swallow the toxic chemical? If swallowed you can suffer burns in your mouth, throat, and stomach, but concentrates ammonia exposedto the skin will cause burns. Now can ammonia cause cancer? New reasearch raises the possibility that exposure to ammonia in air pollution may increase the risk of **salivary gland cancer**, which is a rare cancer were there are few known risk factors. Reasearchers found that the risk of dying from salivary gland cancer was greater in counties with the highest levels of ammonia in the air, but the increased risk was only seen in white men, not white woman or African Americans.Before all the negetives can happen ,you can get tested for it with a simple blood test.

__**Can This Happen TO You**__

In france there was a case when an industrial ammonia tank explosion which occurred inside a factory in Dakar (SONACOS), on the 24th of March 1992. The census of the dead has been made during the three months following the explosion. The victims were between 3 months and 74 years old.There were 91 deaths. Heavy ammonia poisoning caused the subjects death. The symtoms was extended cutaneomucous burns, a sharp lung oedema sometimes associated with a pulmonary emphysema. It shows that work places sound find better ways to prevent this fom happening again.


 * __Why Is It Needed?__**

Have you ever wondered, why is Ammonia needed? A lot of people today sees Ammonia on the shelves of stores, but what is the main reason of exposing a product such as Ammonia inside of stores. The answers to these questions are yet so hard to find, but after recent studies, they weren't so hard to figure out. //This is where the science comes in.// Ammonia is the main component for all life forms. The chemical within it contains one nitrogen and atom that are together on three hydrogen atoms. These serves as a nitrogen carrier. But did you know this? Nitrogen is an abundant element that is the living organisms by its weight. This element takes up about 2.5% of the body's mass. Yet, the living things today needs nitrogen to live. Only a certain amount of microbes are able to fix the atmospheric nitrogen, //known as N2//, so that it can turn into a non-volatile form that is needed to work in our body's today. Within the amino acids, nitrogen plays a very important job. It makes up all the proteins that are within the human body. The untold story that happens with Ammonia is that, prior to the invention long time ago of Freon, Ammonia was used in small refrigerators just like before. A lot of home refrigerators today use CFCs. Yet, knowing how these chemicals are, they are dangerous to the human ozone layer. In industrial process, Ammonia usage have increased. It increased because of bulk ice making. Ammonia can be used in fuel, but don't be fooled, it is not as powerful as some fuels today. It leaves no soot, but it Ammonia can be used experimenting on the X-15 rocket plane. But thats not the only way people use Ammonia. Knowing how dangerous Ammonia chemical is, today, it is used in drinking water and inside chlorines that are used in swimming pools. It is also used to for chloramine and used as a disinfectant. Through a prior percentage that was done, 5-10% of Ammonia is used in homes today as a cleaner. But still, using Ammonia in chlorine is dangers. Why? Carcinogenic and toxic gases are released. In our bloodstreams today, Ammonia can be very dangerous at excessive toxic levels. The body can get rid of it through its technique and reduce it to the compound urea. Wondering what urea is? It makes up majority of the weight of the humans urination.

[|What is Ammonia Used For?] Chemical Exposure to Ammonia. Protect yourself
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