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Originally Posted by Ray
Let me give you a little advice - I have, after all, been growing orchids and working in the chemical industry for more than twice as long as you've been alive - before you go spouting science to us, really know what you're talking about, or at least explain yourself better.
For example, what are you trying to say with "those proteins can benefit the plants in a different than the the nitrogen alone"? Not as proteins they can't. Plants really cannot absorb proteins, the make them from the tiny little mineral ions they do absorb.
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I have been teaching Science [Physics, actually] for years amounting to about three times Ray's age. And my students are the best. They go to the top Ivy League colleges in the US. I've written successful recommendations for them to go MIT, Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, and MSU too.
And they all began like BlakeeBoo. And I am impressed with his high intelligence to attempt what he is attempting now, in a project that fascinates me. It is not the results that count but the doing of it, which will educate him. I am rooting for him to have some measure of success. I am used to my students doing projects too, and sometimes in a subject out of my discipline.
I think Blake is asking if nitrogen, carried by proteins, would be absorbed as such, and benefit the plant in a different way than as nitrogen alone, as a single element. And you told him correctly that only ions in solution can go in. Which is what I believe too but know it need not necessarily be true.
I am waiting to see if science is wrong (again!) as so often happens in Physics - what is logical or expected need not necessarily be true! Or there are exceptions that prove the rule.
Medications get absorbed through the skin from skin patches. I don't believe there is osmosis occurring in this case. Somehow, complex molecules can get in between other molecules too. Unless you rely on pores to absorb the medication.
So, can there be diffusion of a kind into roots besides the usual process of osmosis? I am willing to learn. The open mind waits for all its contents to be improved or confirmed or replaced. The open mind can also have a lot of rubbish thrown in too.
Anyway, BlakeeBoo, keep an open mind and keep on asking questions. That is how a scientific researcher always works. The day you stop asking questions is the day you stop learning. I like what you are doing.
[Of course it may not mean you will get right answers, but never mind. You must next query the answers you get.]
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