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- Nitrification - n. - The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.
- Nitrification - n. - The act or process of oxidizing nitrogen or its compounds so as to form nitrous or nitric acid.
- Nitrification - n. - A process of oxidation, in which nitrogenous vegetable and animal matter in the presence of air, moisture, and some basic substances, as lime or alkali carbonate, is converted into nitrates.
- Saltpetre - n. - Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant.