nitrogen fixation
n 1 : the industrial conversion of free nitrogen into combined forms useful esp. as starting materials for fertilizers or explosives 2 : the metabolic assimilation of atmospheric nitrogen by soil microorganisms and esp. rhizobia and its release for plant use by nitrification in the soil on the death of the microorganisms .
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