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@ mleku
2025-04-06 16:28:02i dunno, normally you get nitrate from birdshit and suchlike i'd guess that there is a transitional process from when you have rich phosphates from pee and then after time the phosphorus vaporizes and you have nitrate ammonia is not nitrate, it has to be oxidised first, ammonia is literally the reduced form of nitrogen and nitrate is the oxidised form i'm not a practising chemist, but it is one of my favourite subjects behind computer science and spirituality