Ammonia Nitrite Nitrate

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Key Facts

Abbreviation
ANN
Pronunciation
/əˈmoʊniə ˈnaɪtraɪt ˈnaɪtreɪt/
Category
Academic & Science
Related Field
Chemistry

Examples in Context

  1. Ammonia, nitrite and nitrate are the main contamination in the marine aquarium and aquaculture systems. Biological methods are used to be used in the removal process.
  2. The experiment results indicate that the bacterium can metabolize ammonia, nitrite and nitrate when sufficient oxygen exists.
  3. The accumulation of ammonia, nitrite and nitrate, which are the main productions as the nutriment decomposes, does harm to the living fish and incurs the water enrichment.
  4. In water, nitrogen exists in form of organic nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen, nitrite and nitrate.
  5. The three bacteria have strong function of removing ammonia nitrogen, nitrite nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen.

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