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Definition of Nitrobacteria
1. Noun. Soil bacteria that convert nitrites to nitrates.
Generic synonyms: Eubacteria, Eubacterium, True Bacteria
Group relationships: Genus Nitrobacter, Nitrobacter
Definition of Nitrobacteria
1. Noun. (plural of nitrobacterium) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitrobacteria
Literary usage of Nitrobacteria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agricultural Bacteriology: A Study of the Relation of Bacteria to by H[erbert] W[illiam] Conn (1901)
"These nitrobacteria, as we have seen, induce the oxidation either of ammonia or
of nitrites, and such oxidation would yield some energy. ..."
2. Soils, Their Properties and Management by Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Elmer Otterbein Fippin, Harry Oliver Buckman (1915)
"Some experimenters report having grown nitrobacteria in organic media, but it is
generally believed at present that this is not ..."
3. Soils, Their Properties and Management by Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Elmer Otterbein Fippin, Harry Oliver Buckman (1915)
"Some experimenters report having grown nitrobacteria in organic media, but it is
generally believed at present that this is not possible and that there has ..."
4. The Principles of Soil Management by Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Elmer Otterbein Fippin (1909)
"ment of nitrobacteria and one half that quantity checks it, ... In confirmation
of the inhibiting effect of organic matter on the nitrobacteria, ..."
5. General Pathology: Or, The Science of the Causes, Nature and Course of the by Ernst Ziegler (1899)
"... the nitrobacteria—which are able to form nitrous and nitric acids from ...
as shown by the fact that the nitrobacteria are able, in the absence of ..."
6. Soils; Their Properties, Improvement, Management, and the Problems of Crop by Charles William Burkett (1907)
"Decomposition bacteria cease their labors when the organic matter is used up,
but these, the nitrobacteria, only begin their work when such becomes the case ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1905)
"NITRIFICATION, a process carried on by certain peculiar bacteria of the soil,
known as nitrobacteria, by which they oxidize ammonia compounds to nitrites ..."
8. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"The nitrobacteria are instanced as the only organisms having the power of formation
of carbohydrates from CO, by synthetic methods and ..."
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