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nitraclines

nitraclines is the plural of nitracline.

Meaning of nitracline

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

Questions about nitraclines

What is nitraclines the plural of?
Nitraclines is the plural of nitracline.

Words near nitraclines in the dictionary

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

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