Dictionary Entry
nitrification
nitrification is a 13-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
13 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 21 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.
- 2noun
The act or process of oxidizing nitrogen or its compounds so as to form nitrous or nitric acid.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to plants)
- 5noun
the chemical process in which a nitro group is added to an organic compound (or substituted for another group in an organic compound)
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