0 present participle of denitrify --
1 to break up nitrates (= chemicals containing nitrogen and oxygen), for example in soil, and so release nitrogen into the air: --
Denitrifying bacteria themselves include several species of "pseudomonas", "alkaligenes" and "bacillus".
Denitrifying bacteria convert the nitrate into nitrogen gas.
Putrefying bacteria is one of the main processes in the nitrogen cycle; other than putrefying bacteria there are denitrifying bacteria, nitrifying bacteria and nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
Other strains have been discovered that can degrade halobenzoates under anaerobic denitrifying conditions, and that can degrade sulfonates under anaerobic growth conditions.
Denitrification may occur under anaerobic conditions (flooding) in the presence of denitrifying bacteria.
The herbicide was found to undergo anaerobic microbial degradation under denitrifying, iron-reducing, sulfate-reducing, or methanogenic conditions.
Nitrogen gases are produced by denitrifying bacteria and as a waste product, and bacteria for decaying yield ammonia, as do most invertebrates and vertebrates.
This suggests that different types of denitrifying strategies win in different biological environments.
