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- verb Present participle of
denitrify .
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Examples
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They live in rice paddies which are actually large, though shallow, bodies of water that is denitrified by plants and beneficial bacteria.
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A similar problem occurs if you type "identified" as "dentified", resulting in odd police reports in which suspects were "denitrified".
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A similar problem occurs if you type "identified" as "dentified", resulting in odd police reports in which suspects were "denitrified".
Archive 2006-10-01 Peggy 2006
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This phenomenon indicates that, when organic nitrogen is applied in large quantities, part of the nitrogen is denitrified by the activity of micro-organisms.
Chapter 18 1979
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My experience is that denitrified glass is also more likely to crack in the flame than good new glass, though the difference in this respect is not very strongly marked with narrow tubes.
On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall
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By speeding water off the soil, drainage tile also speeds up the loss of nitrogen, which might otherwise stick around to be denitrified by bacteria into biologically unavailable forms or to be taken up by the crop.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Fortune denitrified four trends that "have the ability to transform the economy".
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