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AMMONIFY
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Irregular inflected form: ammonified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they ammonify ... he / she / it ammonifies
Past simple: ammonified
Past participle: ammonified
-ing form: ammonifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "ammonify" is one way to...):
impregnate; saturate (infuse or fill completely)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
ammonification (impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia)
ammonium (the ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion)
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