Fertilizer

Fertilizer

Fertilizer is a processed mixture of biological nutrients. It aids in the growth of certain Plants.

Type

Agriculture

at 125 °C / 257 °F cooks into

Dirt (SHC: 1.48)

Specific Heat Capacity

0.83 $\frac{\text{DTU}}{\text{g}{}^{\circ }\text{C}}$ / 0.46 $\frac{\text{DTU}}{\text{g}{}^{\circ }\text{F}}$

Thermal Conductivity

2 $\frac{\text{DTU}}{\text{m}\text{s}{}^{\circ }\text{C}}$ / 1.11 $\frac{\text{DTU}}{\text{m}\text{s}{}^{\circ }\text{F}}$

Hardness

2 (Very Soft)

Strength

0.2

Light Absorption Factor

100%

Radiation Absorption Factor

70%

Molar Mass

50 $\frac{\text{g}}{\text{mol}}$

Default Mass

200 kg

Max Mass

300 kg

Properties

Solid, Oxidizer

Code

elementId

Fertilizer

localizationID

STRINGS.ELEMENTS.FERTILIZER.NAME

Fertilizer is an Agriculture Resource. It is found in the Temperate Biome, in tiles of 50 kg around Water .

Properties

Fertilizer is a very soft material, having a hardness of 2. At 125 °C it melts into Dirt .

Usage

• Duplicants with Crop Tending Skill can use Fertilizer to increase Plants growth rate in Farm Station.
• Sage Hatch can eat up to 140 kg of Fertilizer per cycle and excrete Coal with a 1:1 ratio.
• Fertilizer can be used as solid oxidizer for rockets. Although its efficiency is the least among oxidizers, Fertilizer is far easier to handle than the others.
• However, rockets can consume hundreds of kilos of it on just one trip; those hundreds of kilos could have been used for farms across many cycles.

Production

Fertilizer Synthesizer can produce Fertilizer from Polluted Water , Dirt and Phosphorite . 39 g/s Polluted Water + 65 g/s Dirt + 26 g/s Phosphorite = 120 g/s Fertilizer + 10 g/s Natural Gas .

Tips

Fertilizer increases plants growth rate by +100% for one cycle. It can be useful on plants with long growth cycles or high resource requirements for normal growth, as the resource requirement doesn't double.

Fertilizer has no effect on Mealwood.

See also

• Resource