denitrifying in English
verb
1
(chiefly of bacteria) remove the nitrates or nitrites from (soil, air, or water) by chemical reduction.
Still other types of bacteria ‘ denitrify ’ soil by breaking down its nitrogen compounds and returning free nitrogen to the air.
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1. Facultative Aerobes (which are also conditional anAerobes) use the energy of fermentation, and therefore they can live with either large or negligible amounts of oxygen (for example, yeasts and denitrifying bacteria).