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• Guano: seabird (or bat) poop. From the indigenous Peruvian word “wanu”, meaning “manure that’s good for fertilizer"
• Manure: animal poop used as fertilizer (typically cow or pig poop)
• Fertilizer: a chemical-containing substance added to soil to provide nutrients to plants
• Nitrate mining: digging up the naturally occurring solid form of the element nitrogen (sodium nitrate)
• Phosphate mining: digging up the naturally occurring solid form of the element phosphorus
• Haber-Bosch process: the major industrial method to take nitrogen gas out of the air and convert it to ammonia

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