RE: Truth of Myth about lightning
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: RE: Truth of Myth about lightning
- From: c*@juno.com (Cleve D Franks)
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 21:30:31 EST
Lightning fixes nitrogen in the atmosphere (converts it from N2 to NH3)
and rain deposits it on the earth's surface. The only figure I could
find on the amount was 7.6 million metric tons of nitrogen per year for
the entire globe. Sounds like a lot, but lots of it is leached out and
still more is lost back into the atmosphere through denitrification. I
doubt if a single storm could fix enough nitrogen to produce a noticable
growth spurt in your pumpkins. (Would have to be a heck of a lightning
storm).
Best wishes,
Cleve Franks
In a message dated 97-12-12 02:21:19 EST, pleasureway@indigo.quadrant.net
writes:
<< Subj: Truth of Myth about lightning
Date: 97-12-12 02:21:19 EST
From: pleasureway@indigo.quadrant.net (Dean Rumpel)
Sender: owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
Reply-to: pumpkins@mallorn.com
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Hi:
My faher n law is trying to convince me that when there has been
a
lightning storm, the lightning releases potassium or was it phospherus,
from
the soil and therefor pumpkins and other garden vegtables have a
noticable
growth spurt. Does this even sound possible ? your thoughts please.
Thank You
Dean Rumpel
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