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Definition of Nitrite bacterium
1. Noun. Any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize ammonia into nitrites.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitrite Bacterium
Literary usage of Nitrite 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 ...
The sensitivity of the nitrite-bacterium to organic substances carries with ..."
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. The Bacteria of Nebraska Soil by John Jacob Putnam (1913)
"Spirillum rubrum: moderate growth; no evolution of gas on addition of acid;
nitrate content unchanged; No formation of nitrite. Bacterium rugosum: good ..."
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. 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 ..."
6. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"Similarly, it is stored solar energy which a nitrite bacterium derives from the
oxidation of ammonia, and which enables it to build ..."
7. Canning and Preserving of Food Products with Bacteriological Technique: A by Edward Wiley Duckwall (1905)
"... being about 0.9 to in broad, and from 1.2 to 1.8 /* long, and is found in
European, African and Japanese soil, It is a nitrite bacterium, and motile, ..."
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