The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nitrogenize \Ni"tro*gen*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nitrogenized; p. pr. & vb. n. Nitrogenizing.] (Chem.) To combine, or impregnate, with nitrogen or its compounds.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound.
WordNet
v. treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound [syn: nitrify, nitrogenise]
Usage examples of "nitrogenize".
The loss in manuring matters, which is incurred in keeping manure-heaps exposed to the weather, is not so much due to the volatilization of ammonia as to the removal of ammoniacal salts, soluble nitrogenized organic matters, and valuable mineral matters, by the rain which falls in the period during which the manure is kept.
The nitrogen in fresh dung exists principally in the state of insoluble nitrogenized matters.
During the fermentation of dung, ulmic, humic, and other organic acids are formed, as well as gypsum, which fix the ammonia generated in the decomposition of the nitrogenized constituents of dung.