Nitrogenous is an English word with synonyms like element or gas. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Nitrogenous in a sentence
Nitrogenous meaning
of, relating to, or containing nitrogen
Using Nitrogenous
- The main meaning on this page is: of, relating to, or containing nitrogen
- Useful related words include: nitrogen-bearing, chemical element, element, gas.
- In the example corpus, nitrogenous often appears in combinations such as: of nitrogenous, nitrogenous waste, nitrogenous compounds.
Context around Nitrogenous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Nitrogenous
- In this selection, "nitrogenous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mainly, synthetic, remove, waste, compounds and bases stand out and add context to how "nitrogenous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acid as nitrogenous waste and and amounts of nitrogenous compounds which. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "nitrogenous" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with nitrogenous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Animals must excrete this in the form of nitrogenous compounds. (10 words)
They consist of a nitrogenous base attached to a sugar-phosphate backbone. (12 words)
Most reptiles, birds, insects, and snails excrete uric acid solely as nitrogenous waste. (13 words)
Firstly, all known diapsids are uricotelic, meaning they excrete uric acid as nitrogenous waste, and there is no known case of a diapsid re-evolving ureotelism, or the excretion of urea, even when they return to semi-aquatic lifestyles. (39 words)
Because ammonia is toxic, it is excreted immediately by fish, converted into uric acid by birds, and converted into urea by mammals. citation Ammonia (NH 3 ) is a common byproduct of the metabolism of nitrogenous compounds. (36 words)
Substitution of animal manures for synthetic fertilizers in crop production can be environmentally significant, as between 43 and 88 MJ of fossil fuel energy are used per kg of nitrogen in manufacture of synthetic nitrogenous fertilizers. (36 words)
Example sentences (19)
Both ultraviolet light and dissolved iron could have destroyed a significant portion of nitrogenous oxides in the ocean, sending the compounds back into the atmosphere as gaseous nitrogen.
However, the impact of these nitrogenous substances on the Bohai Sea region remains unclear.
Fertilisers therefore contain large amounts of nitrogenous compounds, which are usually synthesised by converting nitrogen to ammonia in the industrial Haber-Bosch process, named after its inventors.
According to base pairing rules (A with T, and C with G), hydrogen bonds bind the nitrogenous bases of the two separate polynucleotide strands to make double-stranded DNA.
A good illustration of this is Australian wheat growing in the southern winter cropping zone, where, despite low rainfall (300 mm), wheat cropping is successful even with relatively little use of nitrogenous fertilizer.
Animals must excrete this in the form of nitrogenous compounds.
Because ammonia is toxic, it is excreted immediately by fish, converted into uric acid by birds, and converted into urea by mammals. citation Ammonia (NH 3 ) is a common byproduct of the metabolism of nitrogenous compounds.
Firstly, all known diapsids are uricotelic, meaning they excrete uric acid as nitrogenous waste, and there is no known case of a diapsid re-evolving ureotelism, or the excretion of urea, even when they return to semi-aquatic lifestyles.
In developing countries, use of (mainly nitrogenous) fertilizer increased 25-fold in this period.
Most reptiles, birds, insects, and snails excrete uric acid solely as nitrogenous waste.
Some plants rely on ammonia and other nitrogenous wastes incorporated into the soil by decaying matter.
Substitution of animal manures for synthetic fertilizers in crop production can be environmentally significant, as between 43 and 88 MJ of fossil fuel energy are used per kg of nitrogen in manufacture of synthetic nitrogenous fertilizers.
The excretory system is similar to that of mammals and there are two kidneys that remove nitrogenous products from the blood.
The most important nitrogenous excretion product is the water-insoluble uric acid ; this can be excreted in solid state, with very little water.
The nitrogenous bases of the two separate polynucleotide strands are bound together (according to base pairing rules (A with T, and C with G) with hydrogen bonds to make double-stranded DNA.
The phosphate group and the sugar of each nucleotide bond with each other to form the backbone of the nucleic acid, while the sequence of nitrogenous bases stores the information.
There can be anything from one to over a hundred metanephridia for excreting nitrogenous waste, which typically open near the anterior end of the animal.
They consist of a nitrogenous base attached to a sugar-phosphate backbone.
They excrete nitrogen as the complex nitrogenous waste compound uric acid, and related derivatives.
Common combinations with nitrogenous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of nitrogenous 7×
- nitrogenous waste 4×
- nitrogenous compounds 3×
- nitrogenous bases 3×
- the nitrogenous 2×
- nitrogenous fertilizer 2×
- as nitrogenous 2×