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NITROGEN BALANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nitrogen balance mean? 

NITROGEN BALANCE (noun)
  The noun NITROGEN BALANCE has 1 sense:

1. the balance between the amount of nitrogen taken in (to the soil or the body) and the amount given off (lost or excreted)play

  Familiarity information: NITROGEN BALANCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NITROGEN BALANCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The balance between the amount of nitrogen taken in (to the soil or the body) and the amount given off (lost or excreted)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("nitrogen balance" is a kind of...):

balance (a state of equilibrium)


 Context examples 


The collision of India with Asia closed off an ancient sea called the Tethys, where low-oxygen waters were formed, changing the oxygen and nitrogen balance of the oceans.

(Tectonic collision 50 million years ago led to widespread ocean changes, National Science Foundation)



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