How to Use nitrogen in a Sentence

nitrogen

noun

• About half of the nitrogen in your body comes from the Haber-Bosch process.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
• Both can be sown in the spring, build soil and are a good nitrogen source.
  — oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2023
• The bacteria take nitrogen from the air in the soil and feed it to the clover, keeping it green.
  — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
• That is a pit of sand full of nitrogen bubbles that SFX did.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Feb. 2024
• The Netherlands produces four times more nitrogen than the average across the EU.
  — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
• Once the cover crop is allowed to die and decay, the useable nitrogen is released for the next crop.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• Apply a source of nitrogen to the soil before planting.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2023
• And so it was hoisted by a helicopter and taken to a clean room there in Utah, and then there were tests done, and then there was a nitrogen purge.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
• The liquid nitrogen was placed in a cooling pot from the vendor Kingpin, which can be mounted to the graphics card.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 July 2023
• Too much nitrogen can cause the plant to overproduce greenery at the expense of flowers.
  — oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2023
• The active microbes in the soil that chomp away at those fresh chips can tie up lots of soil nitrogen and other nutrients.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2024
• High levels of nitrogen can trigger algal blooms and kill fish, the report notes.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• The temperature of the atoms in the BEC is less than 100 nanokelvins, one billion times colder than liquid nitrogen.
  — Charles D. Brown Ii, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• As a result, the unused nitrogen and phosphorus leached back into the dredged lake.
  — Bychristian Elliott, science.org, 2 May 2023
• Triton consists of a crust of frozen nitrogen over an icy mantle believed to cover a core of rock and metal.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
• The extra pound of pressure that nitrogen provides will make no difference in how your tires wear.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 27 Mar. 2023
• Dias and his colleagues argue this is where the nitrogen in their new material comes in.
  — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023
• It’s filled with nitrogen instead of air for a reliable pressure throughout the race.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• The tanks are maintained manually, meaning lab staff top up the nitrogen by hand.
  — Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2023
• Miller traveled from his home in Tucson to meet with Brodhead and assist her in taking her own life with a plastic hood and nitrogen gas.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2024
• For example, corn could be trained to remove nitrogen from the atmosphere for use as a nutrient, the way soy does.
  — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2023
• They are made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and one or more sequences of amino acids.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• But the Supreme Court’s lift of the stay at that time did not address Smith’s choosing nitrogen hypoxia instead of lethal injection.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 15 May 2023
• Experts said that one way to improve the soil’s fertility is to plant cover crops, which add nitrogen to the soil, are left to decay in the fields and slow soil erosion.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
• For example, dairy farmers in the Netherlands have been protesting plans by the government to force them to cut their nitrogen emissions.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2023
• Some improve soil texture, others add nitrogen, and so on.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• In fact, the mist is composed of just two ingredients: thermal spring water and nitrogen.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2022
• Barber asked the court to bar the state from executing him by any method other than nitrogen hypoxia.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 8 July 2023
• The heat from this ignition starts the decomposition of the sodium azide, which is poisonous, and the generation of nitrogen gas to fill the air bag in seconds.
  — Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2024
• All the nitrogen accumulated and held by the snow microbes becomes available at the perfect time.
  — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024