VERB
- treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound
- convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria
- treat (soil) with nitrates
How To Use nitrify In A Sentence
- Changes in denitrifying bacteria: These bacteria convert anthropogenic nitrogen (via fertilizer runoff into rivers, etc., etc.) to molecular nitrogen which then is reincorporated into the atmosphere. Research Blogging - All Topics - English
- As regards the ammonium carbonate accumulating in the soil from the conversion of urea and other sources, we know from Winogradsky's researches that it undergoes oxidation in two stages owing to the activity of the so-called "nitrifying" bacteria (an unfortunate term inasmuch as Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
- Still other types of bacteria ‘denitrify’ soil by breaking down its nitrogen compounds and returning free nitrogen to the air.
- The gypsum neutralises the alkalinity of nitrifying solutions by converting the alkaline ammonium carbonate into neutral ammonium sulphate, the calcium carbonate being precipitated. Manures and the principles of manuring
- So, when there is denitrifying bacteria that means the nitrate is being put back into the atmosphere?
- There are significant correlation between nitrogen removal efficiency and the biomass of nitrifying bacteria in water and the plants.
- R. Warington, J.T. Schloessing, C.A. Müntz and others had proved that nitrification was promoted by some organism, when Winogradsky hit on the happy idea of isolating the organism by using gelatinous silica, and so avoiding the difficulties which Warington had shown to exist with the organism in presence of organic nitrogen, owing to its refusal to nitrify on gelatine or other nitrogenous media. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
- Soil chemosynthesis (nitrifying, hydrogen-oxidizing, iron (Fe2+) - oxidizing, and sulfur c (S) bacteria) Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on function of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term
- In the rotting of our farmyard manure it is possible that the denitrifying organisms may be more active than we have hitherto suspected, and that a considerable loss of nitrogen may in this way be effected. Manures and the principles of manuring
- In this manner he studied the metabolism of sea-urchin eggs, blood corpuscles, and various bacteria and especially the respiratory processes of nitrifying bacteria. Otto Meyerhof - Biography