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Six example sentences with urea, each labelled with its topic.
Farmers spread urea before rain, and the runoff turns the creek cloudy for a week downstream of the field.
Environment
A blood test measuring urea tells the physician quickly whether the kidneys are clearing waste at a normal rate.
Medicine
Plants beside the gas fields ship urea by the trainload, and their margins track natural gas prices closely.
Economics
In 1828 Wohler made urea from ammonium cyanate, the first time a product of living bodies was built from lifeless chemicals.
History
Fish release ammonia straight into the water, while mammals convert it to urea, which is far less toxic to carry.
Science
Modern diesel trucks inject a urea solution into the exhaust, where it breaks nitrogen oxides into harmless nitrogen and water.
Technology
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