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nitracline

nitracline noun: a layer in a body of water in which the nitrate concentration changes rapidly with depth.

Noun

nitracline (plural nitraclines)

  1. A layer in a body of water in which the nitrate concentration changes rapidly with depth
    • All profiles showed that ΣNO x was depleted at the surface with a nitracline located at about 20–40 m depth, below which ΣNO x increased to about 30 μM. The location of the nitracline coincided with a NO 2 - concentration peak of 0.6 μM at 30 m, which was also the upper boundary of the O 2 minimum...2015 July 11, “Nitrate and Nitrite Variability at the Seafloor of an Oxygen Minimum Zone Revealed by a Novel Microfluidic In-Situ Chemical Sensor”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of nitracline

pluralnitraclines

Origin of nitracline

From nitro- + -cline.

Questions about nitracline

What does nitracline mean?
Nitracline means a layer in a body of water in which the nitrate concentration changes rapidly with depth.
What part of speech is nitracline?
Nitracline is a noun.
What is the plural of nitracline?
The plural of nitracline is nitraclines.

Words near nitracline in the dictionary

  1. nitpickish
  2. nitpicks
  3. nitpicky
  4. nitr-
  5. nitracaine
  6. nitracline
  7. nitraclines
  8. nitracrine
  9. nitragin
  10. nitralin
  11. nitramide

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