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Re:Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm clos... by Denvercoder9 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:10PM (#31990877)
That image and the description only applies to nitrogen dioxide; the problem in the Netherlands is mostly ammonia, which is for >85% produced by farming.

https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/dossier/dossier-stikstof/stikstofem...

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Re:Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm clos... by misja111 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:30PM (#31991153)
> the problem in the Netherlands is mostly ammonia

This is not true, and the article you're linking to doesn't support your claim. The majority of the nitrogen containing emissions are NOx. About the differences in harmfulness between both gasses not much is known, at least not when it's about soil pollution. NOx is a powerful greenhouse gas though, while NHx is not.

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Re:Dutch farmers organise mass protests in face of farm clos... by Denvercoder9 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:37PM (#31991267)
> This is not true, and the article you're linking to doesn't support your claim. The majority of the nitrogen containing emissions are NOx.

Only by weight, but one molecule of NO (30 u) and especially NO2 (46 u) is much heavier than one molecule of NH3 (17 u). If you read literally the next sentence in the article, they convert the gross weight into amount of nitrogen, and the ammonia contains twice the nitrogen content.

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