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Definition of Nitrate bacterium
1. Noun. Any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize nitrites into nitrates.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitrate Bacterium
Literary usage of Nitrate bacterium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"The nitrite-bacterium is much more sensitive to organic substances than the
nitrate-bacterium. On the other hand, the nitrate-bacterium is astonishingly ..."
2. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"The classical example is the two nitrifying bacteria : the nitrate bacterium is
unable to oxidize ammonia, and depends entirely upon the nitrite bacterium ..."
3. Microbiology for Agricultural and Domestic Science Students by Charles Edward Marshall, Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1911)
"The classical example is the two nitrifying bacteria: the nitrate bacterium is
unable to oxidize ammonia, and depends entirely upon the nitrite bacterium to ..."
4. Microbiology for Agricultural and Domestic Science Students by Charles Edward Marshall, Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1911)
"The classical example is the two nitrifying bacteria: the nitrate bacterium is
unable to oxidize ammonia, and depends entirely upon the nitrite bacterium to ..."
5. The Structure and Functions of Bacteria by Alfred Fischer (1900)
"... a nitrate bacterium . TIT-. ' XT- « from Quito. Magn. 1000. and less) found
in soil from South America and Australia. Nitrosomonas is a very short ..."
6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1902)
"Such a medium is unfavorable to the nitrate bacterium, also. The isolation of
the bacteria which oxidize organic nitrogen must be conducted in a medium ..."
7. Sewage and the BacteriaL Purification of Sewage by Samuel Rideal (1906)
"The nitrite is much more sensitive than the nitrate bacterium to nitrogenous
substances such as peptone and asparagin. The more complex, unstable, ..."
8. The Foundations of Scientific Agriculture by Samuel Cooke (1897)
"Green manuring, which means the ploughing in of growing crops, has a very similar
effect to that of cattle-dung, for which 1 The nitrate bacterium present ..."
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