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Word: Nitrogenase
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1930s. From nitrogen + -ase
Definition:
Any of a class of complex enzymes (typically containing iron and molybdenum atoms) which bring about the conversion of molecular nitrogen into ammonium ions, as the first step in biological nitrogen fixation.
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