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Introduction
Ammonia is a highly toxic compound. It's
a substance that's produced by fish, animals and humans. The
gill in the fish have cells that cause them to create
ammonia. Ammonia is make up of one Nitrogen and three hydrogen (NH3).
When ammonia dissolves in water, it react with an
ion, to make ammonium. It's now
having a new substance which is called ammonium ion.
Ammonium ion is slightly less harmful than
ammonia.
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This is a picture of a
ammonia molecule. It contain 1 nitrogen
(blue)
and 3 hydrogen (yellow)
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Does Hudson River
have ammonia?
From the test that I did, we tested if
there are ammonia in Hudson River and found out that the
bottom of the river have more ammonia than the top. We did
two tests: one is from the top of the Hudson river water and
from the bottom of the water. As a result the bottom water
is more more yellow than the top, which mean it has more
ammonia and harmful to the plants and other organism live in
the bottom of the river. As for the fish that swim in the
middle or at the top of the river, they are not that
affected by the ammonia, but they are still not as healthy
as a fish living in normal river. Their gills for example,
they are swollen and clump together, which look like.
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Q &
A
Questions:
1. Where did the component originate? How
did it arrive in the water?
2. Is the component needed for life?
Specify.
3. Is the component hazardous for life?
Specify.
4. Descibe efforts to remove access
amount of the component?
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Ammonia testing
kit (above)
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Answers:
1. Ammonia are produce by wastes. Human,
animal and fish create waste, that mean that they create
ammonia. This also means that ammonia in Hudson River are
mostly created by fish.
2. Ammonia is needed for life, but in
order for it to do it's job, it needs to be ammonium ions,
which is a source of nitrogen that plant can take in. They
make food with it and animal eats plant and then it's eaten
by human. So ammonia is important in the food
chain.
3. Yes, ammonia is dangerous. The
harmfulness of ammonia is affected by temperature and pH.
Ammonia gets more harmful when the temperature and pH
decrease. Ammonia can burn you if it gets on you.
4. In our opinion we think that people
does help and try to prevent from ammonia getting to the Hudson River. One way that they could do is not dumping
waste in the river.
For future protection.
It's a good idea that people try to
prevent ammonia, if they don't the level of ammonia of the
water will get higher, this is dangerous to the fish and
they'll die.
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Ammonia and
nitrogen cycle.
Ammonia is consist in the nitrogen cycle.
When nitrogen is fix, it's turn into nitrate, which is a
source that plants use. Plants make food with it and
eventually the plant will die. Mineralization is another
part of the nitrogen cycle and it's when the protein of
plants break down into ammonia then to ammonium. Therefore,
ammonia is a part of nitrogen cycle.
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Ammonia and the
water cycle.
When water with ammonia evaporate. The pH
is usually acidic. When water molecules condense, when turns
back to liquid, it forms cloud. During precipitation, when
it rains, snows, hail or sleet it will be acid. Therefore
ammonia is part of the water cycle.
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