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Definition of Nitrosomonas

1. Noun. Ellipsoidal soil bacteria.

Medical Definition of Nitrosomonas

1. A genus of gram-negative, ellipsoidal or rod-shaped bacteria whose major source of energy and reducing power is from the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite. Its species occur in soils, oceans, lakes, rivers, and sewage disposal systems. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitrosomonas

Literary usage of Nitrosomonas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Soil Biology; Laboratory Manual: Laboratory Manual by Albert Lemuel Whiting (1917)
"ISOLATION AND STUDY IN PURE CULTURE OF nitrosomonas AND NITROBACTER. ... ISOLATION OF nitrosomonas. — Procedure: 1. Place 1 cc. of the solution (numbers 7 ..."

2. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"Pure cultures of nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter isolated from the soil ... Sodium chloride at a concentration of 1 per cent was very toxic for nitrosomonas. ..."

3. Soil Conditions and Plant Growth by Edward John Russell (1912)
"Neither nitrosomonas nor nitrobacter has been observed to form spores, or to survive temperatures above 45° C., or treatment with mild antiseptics like ..."

4. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard. Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
"A bacterium called nitrosomonas, capable of oxidizing ammonia to nitrites, ... nitrosomonas is peculiar in that, like the sulphur oxidizing bacteria, ..."

5. Sewage Disposal by Leonard Parker Kinnicutt, Charles Edward Amory Winslow, Robert Winthrop Pratt (1910)
"In the same year, Winogradsky (1890) independently discovered the same organism, which he called nitrosomonas, growing it in solutions containing ammonium ..."

6. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1900)
"He took pure cultures of B. racemosus, of B. nitrosomonas, and of B. nitrobacter, ... Witli B. racemosus + nitrosomonas+nitro- bacter, the nitrification is ..."

7. Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Society of Arts (1904)
"In stained preparations from such colonies I saw bacteria likewise entirely similar to nitrosomonas. In the silica jelly treated with tap water the ammonia ..."

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