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Soil Fertility and Nitrogen Fixation

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Liquid nitrogen is used as a refrigerant to preserve biological specimens.

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Liquid nitrogen is used as a refrigerant to preserve biological specimens because of its low temperature (-196 $^{o}$ ) that does not cause cell breakdown or affect any other cellular mechanisms.

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