Definitions for nitrification

nitrification ni·tri·fi·ca·tion

Spelling: [nahy-truh-fi-key-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌnaɪ trə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Nitrification is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 523 anagrams from letters in nitrification (acfiiiinnortt).

Definitions for nitrification

noun

  1. the act of nitrifying.

Origin of nitrification

First recorded in 1820-30; nitr- + -i- + -fication

Examples for nitrification

Recent experiments at Rothamsted show that in the absence of phosphates no nitrification will occur.

They will be fully discussed in the chapter on nitrification.

nitrification is also dependent on the presence of plant-food suitable for organisms of low character.

He also showed that metabiosis played an important part in nitrification.

This explanation will be understood in the light of what we have already described in regard to "nitrification."

Excess of water drowns the humus, and nitrification cannot go on in a soil the pores of which are closed by excess of moisture.

The presence of moisture in the soil is necessary for the process of nitrification to take place.

No substance is so favourable to nitrification as the natural stony concretion known under the name of lime-tuf.

The evidence for the ferment theory of nitrification is now very complete.

Further proof of the ferment theory is afforded by the fact that antiseptics are fatal to nitrification.

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