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nitrogen-fixing

adj

nitrogen-fixing

adj
1

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences Of a plant, microbe, etc., able to convert inorganic nitrogen into a form usable in the biosphere.

  • From these results it is concluded that hydrogenase is closely related to the nitrogen-fixing system in Azotobacter.1943, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (contributor), The Journal of Biological Chemistry, volumes 151-152, page 384:
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