wrote:
Malcolm wrote:

(snipped)


I rather doubt the accuracy of Malcolm's numbers " 2-4% compared to
1-2%" Those numbers
suggest that plants are better at fertilizing themselves than in the
prescence of animals. I have
mowed my fields for 5 years and never were they as lush and green and
vibrant as this year
after 1 year of horse grazing. I can tell exactly where last years
horse droppings were from
the lush green grass.

Maybe I am too narrow on the nitrogen and maybe there are other
nutrients as important as
nitrogen.

But what I want to know is this Complimentarity relationship of
exactly where in an
animal's body is nitrogen fixed to some molecules that end up as horse
manure.

I can easily trace how carbon dioxide is turned to oxygen by plants
and vice versa both
in process of Metabolism and in Photosynthesis, but, however
it seems as though noone has focused on how nitrogen via animals and
plants is a Complimentarity
relationship.

I should write a whole book on this when I return in August.

Call it the Chemistry: Plant & Animal Complimentarity of Nitrogen

I should compile my old posts of 1990s where I made this conjecture.


I doubt Malcolm's numbers because I suspect that he does not include
the fact that
the decomposition of clippings probably has to go through the
digestive process of
bacteria to gain that 2 - 4% nitrogen. So I suspect Malcolm is
overlooking the fact that
he replaces a horse intestine with bacteria intestine. And I would
call the bacteria in
this case part of the Animal Kingdom.

So I want far more of answers than the superficial answers.

I want actual chemistry of a Nitrogen cycle, just as one can follow
the oxygen and
carbon dioxide complementarity in respiration, metabolism in plants
and animals. I want
the nitrogen to what?? complimentarity between plants and animals.

What is the compound that is compliment to nitrogen?

For respiration we have carbon dioxide compliment to oxygen.
So what is the nitrogen the compliment of?

Archimedes Plutonium
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