nitrocline
nitrocline is the alternative form of nitracline.
Meaning of nitracline
Noun
nitracline (plural nitraclines)
- 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 nitrocline
| plural | nitroclines |
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Origin of nitrocline
From nitro- + -cline.
Questions about nitrocline
- What is nitrocline the alternative form of?
- Nitrocline is the alternative form of nitracline.
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