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Definition of Denitrification

1. n. The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.

Definition of Denitrification

1. Noun. The process by which a nitrate becomes molecular nitrogen, especially by the action of bacteria. ¹

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Definition of Denitrification

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Medical Definition of Denitrification

1. 1. The removal of an oxygen atom from a nitrogen compound (like NO3 to NO2, NO2 to NO, or NO to N2). This is something soil bacteria do successively until they release nitrogen gas. Conversion of nitrate into nitrogen gases under anaerobic conditions, resulting in loss of nitrogen from ecosystems. Compare: nitrogen fixation. 2. The removal of nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from a substance. (12 Jan 1998)

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Literary usage of Denitrification

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)
"\Ve speak of denitrification when nitrate is transformed into nitrite, ... Therefore denitrification obviously cannot be made to rank alongside of ..."

2. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"The economic significance of denitrification was overestimated at one time, on account, largely, of the assertion of Wagner in 1895 that in all soils ..."

3. Sewage Disposal in the United States by George W. Rafter, Moses Nelson Baker (1893)
"denitrification. We have seen from what has preceded that soil possesses the power of nitrification in the highest degree. Under certain circumstances ..."

4. Soil Biology; Laboratory Manual by Albert Lemuel Whiting (1917)
"denitrification, the reverse of nitrification, includes the evolution of ... Practices 7 and 8 represent the denitrification of nitrites and ammonium ..."

5. Bacteria in Relation to Country Life by Jacob Goodale Lipman (1908)
"In the proper definition of the term, namely, the destruction of nitrates with the evolution of gaseous nitrogen, denitrification processes in manure are by ..."

6. Bacteria in Relation to Country Life by Jacob Goodale Lipman (1908)
"We have already noted how the formation of free nitrogen may occur in denitrification processes. It has been pointed out, likewise, that in the manure pile ..."

7. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1918)
"(c) denitrification.—Essentially different chemical and bacterial processes are quite commonly included under this head. Among these are a variety of ..."

8. Manures and Fertilizers: A Text-book for College Students and a Work of by Homer Jay Wheeler (1913)
"The effect of lime on denitrification. — The effect of lime on compact clay or silt soils is to cause several small particles to draw together by the ..."

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