Examples of nitrification in the following topics:
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- Nitrification is an important step in the nitrogen cycle in soil.
- Nitrification is an aerobic process performed by small groups of autotrophic bacteria and archaea.
- The transformation of ammonia to nitrite is usually the rate limiting step of nitrification.
- Nitrification also plays an important role in the removal of nitrogen from municipal wastewater.
- The conventional removal is nitrification, followed by denitrification.
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- Nitrificaton: Nitrification is the conversion of ammonia (NH3) to nitrate (NO3-).
- Nitrification is performed mainly by the genus of bacteria, Nitrobacter.
- Nitrification can also work on ammonium.
- It can either be cycled back into a plant usable form through nitrification or returned to the atmosphere through de-nitrification.
- De-Nitrification: Nitrogen in its nitrate form (NO3-) is converted back into atmospheric nitrogen gas (N2) by bacterial species such as Pseudomonas and Clostridium, usually in anaerobic conditions.
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- Nitrification , as stated above, is formally a two-step process; in the first step ammonia is oxidized to nitrite, and in the second step nitrite is oxidized to nitrate.
- Crenarchaeote are abundant in the ocean and some species have a 200 times greater affinity for ammonia than AOB, leading researchers to challenge the previous belief that AOB are primarily responsible for nitrification in the ocean.
- Nitrification is the biological oxidation of ammonia with oxygen into nitrite followed by the oxidation of these nitrites into nitrates.
- Degradation of ammonia to nitrite is usually the rate limiting step of nitrification.
- Nitrification is an important step in the nitrogen cycle in soil.
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- By a process known as nitrification, bacteria convert these waste products to less toxic forms.
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- Some marine Crenarchaeota are capable of nitrification, suggesting these organisms may affect the oceanic nitrogen cycle, although these oceanic Crenarchaeota may also use other sources of energy.