How to Use nitrogen in a Sentence

nitrogen

noun

• About half of the nitrogen in your body comes from the Haber-Bosch process.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
• Both can be sown in the spring, build soil and are a good nitrogen source.
  — oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2023
• Last year, Kron said the price of nitrogen was about $480 for a ton.
  — Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, 30 Sep. 2022
• The bacteria take nitrogen from the air in the soil and feed it to the clover, keeping it green.
  — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
• That is a pit of sand full of nitrogen bubbles that SFX did.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Feb. 2024
• The goal is to apply one pound of nitrogen to every 1,000 square feet of lawn.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2022
• Plus, the nitrogen that's in the formula will help green up your lawn, too.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 July 2022
• So the oxygen in the air and also the nitrogen can condense onto the surface.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
• Too much nitrogen in the spring can create a weak root system that isn’t able to withstand the heat and drought in summer.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2024
• The Netherlands produces four times more nitrogen than the average across the EU.
  — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
• Oxygen gives off a green and red light, while nitrogen glows blue and purple.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
• Once the cover crop is allowed to die and decay, the useable nitrogen is released for the next crop.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• Then the remaining stored nitrogen get the grass growing quicker in the spring.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2022
• The first number is the nitrogen, by weight, in the fertilizer.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024
• The problem of nitrogen burns from urine affects many plants.
  — oregonlive, 8 Oct. 2022
• The spreader casts an arc of white, nitrogen-rich pellets.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
• The woman is said to have pressed the button to fill the pod with nitrogen at 3.54 p.m., reported U.K newspaper The Times.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
• Apply a source of nitrogen to the soil before planting.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2023
• And so it was hoisted by a helicopter and taken to a clean room there in Utah, and then there were tests done, and then there was a nitrogen purge.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
• Mow it low to the ground, leaving the grass clippings to add additional nitrogen to the soil, and remove any bulky weeds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022
• The execution of Carey Dale Grayson via nitrogen gas is set for next month.
  — Abigail Brooks, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024
• The liquid nitrogen was placed in a cooling pot from the vendor Kingpin, which can be mounted to the graphics card.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 July 2023
• Once the Sarco’s button is pressed from the inside, nitrogen begins to fill the chamber.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
• Adding more food won’t make your plant grow more, but might actually burn the plant with too much nitrogen.
  — Dean Kuipers, Outside Online, 15 Apr. 2022
• Too much nitrogen can cause the plant to overproduce greenery at the expense of flowers.
  — oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2023
• The active microbes in the soil that chomp away at those fresh chips can tie up lots of soil nitrogen and other nutrients.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2024
• That moon is covered in a frozen sheen of condensed nitrogen reflecting much of the sunlight that hits it, NASA said.
  — Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2022
• The evolution and spread of legumes, too, increased nitrogen levels in soils and favored the spread of angiosperms.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2024
• High levels of nitrogen can trigger algal blooms and kill fish, the report notes.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Use a diluted slow-release fertilizer, rather than high amounts of quick-release nitrogen right before or after a hot and dry summer.
  — Nicole Cobler, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024