Article: AMMONIA HOLD COULD PROVE IMPORTANT TO POULTRY INDUSTRY

DE QUEEN, Ark. (AP) - In a converted barn near Gillham, Bill Green and a staff of three are edging toward completion of a new product that could be a boon to the poultry industry.

The product, Ammonia Hold, is intended to help control ammonia levels in chicken houses, although Green says it has the potential for many other applications as well.

The chemistry that makes Ammonia Hold possible is so common that it can be found in many textbooks, Green says. The only thing new about it is the proportion and mixing time of the two key ingredients - brown mud, abundant in the tailings of bauxite mines in central Arkansas, and phosphoric acid - and the fact that Green had the vision to ...

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