What's the difference between nitrite and nitrogen?

Nitrite


Definition:

  • (n.) A salt of nitrous acid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Amplitude of the musical vibrations decreased by inhalation of amyl nitrite, but increased by infusion of methoxamine.
  • (2) Optical difference spectroscopy was used to investigate the kinetics of product formation during the reaction of the respiratory chain with nitrite.
  • (3) Total bacterial counts, nitrate-reducing bacteria and nitrite concentration were determined in fasting gastric juice before and after 4 weeks of treatment with a strong or with a mild antacid drug, a placebo preparation and the spasmolytic agent papaverine which is known to inhibit gastric evacuation.
  • (4) This would explain why the presence of ammonium sulphate appreciably offsets the effects of decreasing pH and also the exponential relationship between rate of nitrite loss and ammonium sulphate concentration.
  • (5) For comparison we investigated several structural analogues with respect to their nitric oxide or nitrite ion releasing potency.
  • (6) Our observation leads to the suggestion that, in vivo, either rhodanese is maintained in its more stable sulfur-substituted form or cellular compartmentalization prevents inactivation by nitrite.
  • (7) Sodium nitrite, a substance with unknown promoting activity, effectively uncoupled cells.
  • (8) The tricyclic psychotropic drug opipramol (Insidon) reacts in vitro with sodium nitrite in acidic solution to form products including mutagens for Salmonella typhimurium TA98 and TA100.
  • (9) This indicates the loss of both assimilatory and dissimilatory nitrate reduction but only dissimilatory nitrite reduction in the mutants selected with chlorate.
  • (10) It was demonstrated that nitrite ions may be produced in metronidazole solutions at the time of preparation or during storage by the effects of temperature and light.
  • (11) Whole-chain formate-nitrate reductase activity, assayed with formate as the electron donor and measuring the amount of nitrite produced, was restored to wild-type levels in the mutants by addition of 10(-4)m molybdate to the growth medium.
  • (12) The aim of this study was to follow the changes in the levels of nitrates and nitrites throughout the process of fermentation of sauerkraut from white and red cabbage and red beets.
  • (13) A decrease of nitrite concentration was only seen after adding a small volume acid of high concentration.
  • (14) In postnatal experiments with methylurea and nitrite, there were induced mostly neurogenic tumours and reticulum cell sarcomas of the paracoecal region.
  • (15) Exposure to tumor necrosis factor-alpha caused a modest (2x) increase in nitrite production.
  • (16) Yet, when temperature of incubation, soil pH, soil moisture content and nitrite concentration were varied in the three soils, and with addition of nitrite reductase inhibitors, it appeared in one soil that NO production was partially a biological process.
  • (17) Neither assimilatory nor dissimilatory nitrate or nitrite reductase activities were detectable in aerobic cultures.
  • (18) Sixteen patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and three healthy volunteers were treated with a combination of a long-acting nitrite and a beta-receptor blocking agent.
  • (19) Synthetic N-OH-PhIP was prepared by catalytic reduction of the nitro derivative of PhIP, which was synthesized from PhIP by diazotization and reaction with sodium nitrite.
  • (20) The bacterial nitrite synthesis in gastric juice from porcine stomach mucin and the decrease of nitrite after adding acid, which has often been described in literature-results of an examination with a standardizable biomodel.

Nitrogen


Definition:

  • (n.) A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms many important compounds, as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. Symbol N. Atomic weight 14. It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris, and Pictet of Geneva.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
  • (2) The measurement of the intestinal metabolism of the nitrogen moiety of glutamic acid has been investigated by oral ingestion of l-[15N]glutamic acid and sampling of arterialized blood.
  • (3) The induction of cells with two Y chromosomes by nitrogen mustard (NM) was examined.
  • (4) The disappearance of the herbicide, Avadex (40% diallate), from five agricultural soils (differing in either pH, carbon content, or nitrogen content), incubated under sterile and non-sterile conditions, was followed for a period of 20 weeks.
  • (5) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
  • (6) Airway closure (CV), functional residual capacity (FRC) and the distribution of inspired gas (nitrogen washout delay percentage, NWOD %) and arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) was measured by standard electrodes in eight extremely obese patients before and after weight loss (mean weights 142 and 94 kg, respectively) following intestinal shunt operation.
  • (7) Formula fed infants retained more nitrogen and gained weight faster.
  • (8) Triglyceride (Trigly) in female dogs, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT) and urea nitrogen (Urea-N) in male dogs tended to increase.
  • (9) Nitrogen retention was curvilinear in relation to metabolic live weight (kg0.75) in both series.
  • (10) Corynebacterium parvum-treated mice produce large amounts of circulating nitrogen oxides and develop a severe liver injury in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS).
  • (11) Eight men and eight women each performed peak oxygen intake tests on a cycle ergometer breathing ambient air and a mixture of 12% oxygen in nitrogen (equivalent to an altitude of 4400 m) in the two experiments.
  • (12) From this, it was suggested that a negligible amount of oestradiol was released from these compounds and that the oestradiol moiety was useful as a carrier for the nitrogen mustard moiety.
  • (13) The intravenous administration of ovine placental lactogen to pregnant and non-pregnant sheep produced significant acute decreases in plasma free fatty acid, glucose and amino nitrogen concentrations.
  • (14) In contrast, nitrogen incubation did not alter the basal levels of TBA reactants except for a small rise associated with VE deficiency.
  • (15) MCT TPN was found to have some disadvantages, especially with regard to nitrogen balance and plasma albumin levels.
  • (16) Nitrogen mustard (N2M) treatment of rabbits induced neutropenia, and, in ligated ileal loops, it inhibited fluid secretion induced by salmonella or by cholera toxin (CT).
  • (17) For dipeptides containing the amino terminal residues glycine, alanine and phenylalanine, abstraction of the hydrogen from the carbon adjacent to the peptide nitrogen was the major process leading to the spin-adducts.
  • (18) The raw data are obtained by capillary gas chromatography using a nitrogen-phosphorus detector.
  • (19) Total protein, RNA, DNA, nitrogen, free amino acids and water content were determined in both lymphatic organs.
  • (20) This is the first evidence supporting carbon-nitrogen bond formation as the initial site of interaction between the two substrate molecules.