ETS said:
My opinion is like a fart in a hurricane against them. I am looking for evidence to prove them right. If I can't find any then they must be wrong.
Any more thoughts or evidence.
People who have very strong beliefs often ignore evidence to the contrary so they probably won't believe any of what I am about to tell you even though it's based on scientific peer-reviewed papers which I usually consider to be the best source for factual information.
This paper talks about ammonium ion uptake by red algae.
This paper also talks about ammonium ion uptake (note that nitrate is another nitrogen form that is readily used by algae).
This paper talks about ammonium ion uptake for algae, but this is marine algae (so sea water).
This paper is another.
Here is another. Temperature dependence for ammonium ion and nitrate ion uptake by bacteria and algae is described
here. More marine algae uptake of ammonium ion
here. Uptake in cyanobacteria
here (also known as blue-green algae).
More algae uptake.
Algae blooms and ammonium uptake. I'm getting bored, aren't you?
Now for monochloramine.
This article talks about it, but you have to pay to find out the details.
This paper is free and talks about monochloramine killing green algae.
This paper states that monochloramine (NH
2Cl) is the most toxic substance that inhibits algal growth in chlorinated sewage effluent. There aren't as many scientific articles on this, but that doesn't make it less true -- it just makes it less interesting for investigation since people are more concerned with algae growth rates (for things like algal blooms in the ocean) than how quickly algae can be killed since it's not technically a pathogen.
Hope that helps,
Richard