Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A genus of rod-shaped soil bacteria.
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- noun rod-shaped soil bacteria
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In eutrophic lakes, anoxia results in increased levels of ammonia (due to lack of Nitrosomonas metabolism) and nitrite (due to lack of Nitrobacter metabolism) with increasing depth in the hypolimnion.
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Further modification by another type of bacteria (belonging to the genus Nitrobacter) converts the nitrite to nitrate (NO3 -).
Nitrogen cycle 2007
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Living symbiotically with it is _Nitrobacter_, which takes its energy (food) from the nitrates formed by _Nitrosomonas_, oxidising them into nitrates.
Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893
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CBIO's N-Series (Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter) are high purity high activity strains of ammonia and nitrite removing bacteria.
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CBIO's N-Series (Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter) are high purity high activity strains of ammonia and nitrite removing bacteria.
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Nitrobacter (converting NO2 into NO3) - if less sludge is produced as a result of producing
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Thus these two species illustrate in its simplest form our law of the _interaction of an organism_ (_Nitrobacter_) _with its life environment_ (_Nitrosomonas_) "(p. 82, author's italics).
Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893
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NO2, it would be infinitesimal as the amount of sludge produced from Nitrobacter is negligible in the overall picture. "
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