A remarkable feature of nanobubbles (<10–6 m in diameter) is their long lifetime in water. Supplying oxygen-nanobubbles (NBs) to continuously flooded paddy soil may retard the development of reductive conditions, thereby reducing the emission of methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas, and dissolution of arsenic, an environmental load. We tested this hypothesis by performing a pot experiment and measuring redox-related variables.
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[2] http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/10/8/084012/article
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/kazunori-minamikawa
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/masayoshi-takahashi
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/tomoyuki-makino-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/environmental-research-letters
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[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/oxides-nitrogen-nox
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