present participle of nitrogenate

plural of nitrogen

plural of nitrogenization

Act or process of nitrogenizing.

present participle of nitrogenize

plural of nitrogenation

The process of nitrogenating.

A condition of disorientation, intoxication and stupor caused by increased levels of dissolved nitrogen in the blood; occurs in divers breathing air under pressure.

The natural circulation of nitrogen, in which atmospheric nitrogen is converted to nitrogen oxides by lightning and deposited in the soil by rain, where it is assimilated by plants and either eaten by animals (and returned as faeces) or decomposed back to elemental nitrogen by bacteria.

Of a plant, microbe, etc., able to convert inorganic nitrogen into a form usable in the biosphere.