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n. the act of nitrifying

n.

n. The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.

n. The act or process of oxidizing nitrogen or its compounds so as to form nitrous or nitric acid.

n. A process of oxidation, in which nitrogenous vegetable and animal matter in the presence of air, moisture, and some basic substances, as lime or alkali carbonate, is converted into nitrates.

n. The process, induced by certain microbes, by which, the nitrogen of organic material in the soil is oxidized to nitric acid.

n. the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to plants)

n. the chemical process in which a nitro group is added to an organic compound (or substituted for another group in an organic compound)

"This ultimate destruction of organic matter is often called nitrification because one of the main substances released is nitrate -- that vital fertilizer that makes plants grow green and fast."

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