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nitrogenase

noun

Etymology

From nitrogen + -ase.

  1. borrowed from nitrogène
  2. suffixed as nitrogenase — “nitrogen + ase”

Definitions

  1. Any enzyme, especially in nitrogen-fixing bacteria, that catalyzes the conversion of…

    Any enzyme, especially in nitrogen-fixing bacteria, that catalyzes the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nitrogenase. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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