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The Nitrogen Cycle

Nitrogen is 79 percent of the atmosphere, but it cannot be used directly by the large majority of living things. It must first be fixed by specialized organisms or by industrial processes

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 223 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “The Nitrogen Cycle” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 223 No. 3 (), p. 136
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0970-136