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Definition of Ammonification
1. Noun. Impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia.
Definition of Ammonification
1. Noun. (biochemistry) The formation of ammonia or its compounds from nitrogenous compounds, especially as a result of bacterial decomposition. ¹
2. Noun. (chemistry) The treatment or impregnation of something with ammonia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ammonification
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ammonification
Literary usage of Ammonification
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bacteria in Relation to Country Life by Jacob Goodale Lipman (1908)
"Importance of ammonification.—Generally speaking, therefore, ammonification,
whether occasioned by the rapid transformation of urea and hippuric acid by ..."
2. Soil Biology; Laboratory Manual by Albert Lemuel Whiting (1917)
"ammonification IN SOILS.* INFLUENCE OF MOISTURE CONTENT ON THE PROCESS.
ammonification, which is the production of ammonia from organic compounds by ..."
3. Soils, Their Properties and Management by Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Elmer Otterbein Fippin, Harry Oliver Buckman (1915)
"ammonification. — Decay and putrefaction may be considered as the beginning of
... ammonification (see Fig. 61), as its name implies, is that stage of the ..."
4. Technology Quarterly by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1905)
"... which he studied produced ammonia, but the rate of ammonification was very
variable, some of the species producing ammonia continuously from the start, ..."
5. A Laboratory Manual of Soil Bacteriology by Edwin Broun Fred (1916)
"ammonification Medium 16 Peptone Solution Peptone 10 gm. Distilled water 1000 cc
Heat in the autoclave for thirty minutes and filter. ..."
6. A Laboratory Manual of Soil Bacteriology by Edwin Broun Fred (1916)
"ammonification Medium 16 Peptone Solution Peptone 10 gm. Distilled water 1000 cc
Heat in the autoclave for thirty minutes and filter. ..."
7. Report of the Soil Chemist and Bacteriologist (1910)
"Nevertheless, it is theoretically possible that the relative ammonification of
a group of nitrogenous substances need not correspond exactly to their ..."
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