How to Use nitrogen fixation in a Sentence

nitrogen fixation

noun

• Across those two research missions scientists found that the highest levels of nitrogen fixation happen at the ice edge, the zone where sea ice is melting most actively.
  — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 7 Nov. 2025
• Unfortunately, the sulfur compounds in garlic may interfere with nitrogen fixation in legumes and cause these plants to grow more slowly and become stunted.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Oct. 2025
• In the Central Arctic Ocean, scientists found that greater nitrogen fixation led to greater primary production, in other words more food made by tiny algae.
  — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 7 Nov. 2025
• Joyn’s idea is to synthesize variations on some of the genes that are believed to play a role in nitrogen fixation, including those involved in the cooperation between legumes and the bacteria specific to their root systems.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2018
• But even more exciting is the discovery of nitrogen fixation, a process in which certain microbes called diazotrophs convert atmospheric nitrogen gas into ammonium, a form phytoplankton can use.
  — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 7 Nov. 2025
• Austrian winter pea provides several benefits including nitrogen fixation, erosion control, and weed management.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2025
• Other contributors include leaks from industrial hydrogen production and nitrogen fixation tied to agriculture, particularly legume crops like soybeans.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
• Nature’s Ammonia Factory Alongside photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation is one of the most essential chemical processes for life on Earth.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026
• Then the German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch cracked industrial nitrogen fixation in 1909, and the practical significance of the problem receded.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026
• To understand how how much life the Arctic Ocean may support in the future, scientists need to study the magnitude and environmental regulation of nitrogen fixation, as well as the distribution, activity, and metabolic functions of key diazotrophs.
  — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 7 Nov. 2025
• The company characterizes these critters with all the fanciest genomic tools available, building computational models to better understand gene circuitry, then tries to breed progeny that don’t have the feedback mechanisms that normally shut off nitrogen fixation in fertilizer-rich soils.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2018