nitrification
noun
ni·tri·fi·ca·tion
ˌnī-trə-fə-ˈkā-shən 
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His research team, in partnership with associate professor Sakiko Okumoto at Texas A&M University, hopes to study plant mechanisms in sorghum and capitalize on its innate ability to inhibit nitrogen loss, a process known as biological nitrification inhibition (BNI).
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Robin Roenker, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
Together, the two stages form an important step (called nitrification) in the nitrogen cycle that operates on Earth.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2023
The authors of the study examined a specific step in the marine nitrogen cycle, called nitrification, in which microorganisms convert one form of nitrogen, ammonium, into nitrate, a form plants and other marine microorganisms require to survive.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2010
Biological processes like soil nitrification, wildfires, and lightning also produce NO₂, but research on Earth suggests that these sources provide far less of the overall total than anthropogenic sources—namely the burning of fossil fuels.
—Meghan Herbst, Wired, 4 Mar. 2021
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Robin Roenker, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
Together, the two stages form an important step (called nitrification) in the nitrogen cycle that operates on Earth.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2023
The authors of the study examined a specific step in the marine nitrogen cycle, called nitrification, in which microorganisms convert one form of nitrogen, ammonium, into nitrate, a form plants and other marine microorganisms require to survive.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2010
Biological processes like soil nitrification, wildfires, and lightning also produce NO₂, but research on Earth suggests that these sources provide far less of the overall total than anthropogenic sources—namely the burning of fossil fuels.
—Meghan Herbst, Wired, 4 Mar. 2021
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nitrification
noun
ni·tri·fi·ca·tion
ˌnī-trə-fə-ˈkā-shən
: the process of combining, mixing, or filling with nitrogen or one of its compounds
especially
: the oxidation (as by bacteria) of ammonium salts to nitrites and then to nitrates
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nitrification
noun
ni·tri·fi·ca·tion
ˌnī-trə-fə-ˈkā-shən
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