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Nitrification

noun

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

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

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... following brief notes I propose to consider in the first place the present position of the theory of nitrification, and next to give a short account of the results of some recent experiments conducted in the ...

— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XIX, No. 470, Jan. 3, 1885 • Various

... These beds were located at Columbia, South Carolina, Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, Mobile, Selma, and various other points. At the close of 1864 there were two million eight hundred thousand feet of earth collected, and in various stages of nitrification, of which a large proportion was presumed to yield one and a half pound of niter per foot of earth. The whole country was laid off into districts, each of which was under the charge of an officer, who obtained details of workmen from the army, and made his monthly ...

— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis

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