Re: [compost_tea] Re: metal chelates-application rates

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 22:40:35 -0400
Hi Eric -

Transmutation is NOT a simple electrical phenomenon.  If you remove an electron from an INNER orbital shell of a molecule, but leave behind "excess" neutrons and positrons, you have a condition which results in a nuclear explosion.  The molecule has to balance, and it will balance, if you can somehow supply enough energy to knock a stable electron out of an inner shell. 

Not simple, and somewhat difficult.  And release of that much energy is not conducive to human life.  So, let's not get into converting one ELEMENT from one thing to another.  You are not changing boron to nitrogen, not unless you want to release so much energy that it will not be a pleasant thing. 

Converting nitrite to nitrate?  Organisms do it all the time, but not what is meant by transmutation.  

>From a certain point of view, all carbon and nitrogen comes from the atmosphere.  But it all has to go through quite a few intermediary steps before the plant can get those nutrients into a form they can take up. It is the biology in the soil that fixes atmospheric nutrients, and eventually cycles them into plant-available forms.  

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Received on Fri May 07 2004 - 00:29:24 EDT

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