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Preferred term

nitrogen

Definition

  • [GEMET] An essential nutrient in the food supply of plants and the diets of animals. Animals obtain it in nitrogen-containing compounds, particularly amino acids. Although the atmosphere is nearly 80% gaseous nitrogen, very few organisms have the ability to use it in this form. The higher plants normally obtain it from the soil after micro-organisms have converted the nitrogen into ammonia or nitrates, which they can then absorb.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • N

Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Arabic

  • النيتروجين

Bulgarian

  • Азот

Croatian

  • dušik

Czech

  • dusík

Danish

  • kvælstof

Dutch

  • stikstof

Estonian

  • lämmastik

Finnish

  • typpi

French

  • azote

German

  • Stickstoff

Greek

  • άζωτο

Hungarian

  • nitrogén

Italian

  • azoto

Latvian

  • slāpeklis

Lithuanian

  • azotas

Norwegian

  • nitrogen

Polish

  • azot

Portuguese

  • azoto

Romanian

  • azot

Slovak

  • dusík

Slovenian

  • dušik

Spanish

  • nitrógeno

Swedish

  • kväve

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20832

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