Sentences with phrase «via nitrite»

Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonia via nitrite to nitrate, has always been considered to be a two - step process catalysed by chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms oxidising either ammonia or nitrite.

Microbiologists used to think that two distinct groups of bacteria were responsible for the stepwise oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite.

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Vegetables which are high in nitrates, like beetroot, provide the stomach protection from damage by converting nitrates into nitrites via the bacteria in the mouth and then transforming the nitrites into nitric oxide in the stomach.

Acute blood pressure lowering, vasoprotective, and antiplatelet properties of dietary nitrate via bioconversion to nitrite.