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denitrify

[ dee-nahy-truh-fahy ]

verb (used with object)

denitrified, denitrifying.
  1. Chemistry, Biology. to reduce (nitrates) to nitrites, ammonia, ammonium compounds, and free atmospheric nitrogen, as in soil by bacteria or other microbes.
  2. Chemistry. to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.


denitrify

/ 徱ːˈԲɪٰɪˌڲɪ /

verb

  1. to undergo or cause to undergo loss or removal of nitrogen compounds or nitrogen
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌԾٰھˈپDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·Ծ·ٰ·ھ··پDz [dee-nahy-tr, uh, -fi-, key, -sh, uh, n] noun
  • ·Ծ·ٰ·ھ· ·Ծ·ٰ·ھ··ٴǰ noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of denitrify1

First recorded in 1890–95; de- + nitrify
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Example Sentences

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Nick Meier, a farmer in La Porte City, has received grant support in converting 5 acres to wetlands, and has installed a denitrifying bioreactor and cover crops.

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Meier seems delighted with his denitrifying bioreactor, as the gizmo is called: It functions properly, it robs him of very little cultivatable space, and it was funded by a state environmental program.

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They also are developing water quality strategies that call for installing tens of thousands of denitrifying bioreactors to help reach those targets.

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In anammox bacteria, there is a giant vacuole, or bag, called an annamoxosome where the denitrifying reactions — i.e., eating and breathing for the bacterium — transpire.

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In the eastern tropical South Pacific, N:P is low because denitrifying bacteria remove nitrogen without also removing phosphorus.

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