Fertilizer
['fɜːtɪlaɪzə] or ['fɝtəlaɪzɚ]
Definition
(noun.) any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile.
Typist: Rodger--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid.
(n.) That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.
Typist: Michael
Examples
- The fertilizer manufacturers mix the cyanamid with other ingredients to make a balanced plant food and so ship it to farmers for feeding their crops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The nitrogen of the soil can be restored if we add to it a fertilizer containing nitrogen compounds which are soluble in water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In Columbus, Ohio, garbage is used as a source of revenue; the grease from the garbage being sold for soap making, and the tankage (Section 188) for fertilizer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In 1914 7,500,000 tons of fertilizer worth $175,000,000 were consumed in this country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- First place was given not to the wonderful inventions that are so large in the public eye, but to the fixation of nitrogen from the air for fertilizer purposes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This discovery is the basis of the Cyanamid Atmospheric Nitrogen industry or the making of fertilizer from the nitrogen in the air. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The bones are ground for fertilizer, and even the tank waters are concentrated and used for the same purpose. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Germany, on one-fourth of our cultivated acreage, uses almost twice as much fertilizer as the entire United States. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A crop of peas, beans, or clover is equivalent to nitrogenous fertilizer and helps to make ready the soil for other crops. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It has been estimated that the drainage or sewage of England alone would be worth $ 80,000,000 a year if used as fertilizer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The fertilizer to be used in a soil depends upon the character of the soil and upon the crops previously grown on it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Commercial fertilizers generally contain nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash in amounts varying with the requirements of the soil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The blood is largely used for making albumen for photographic uses, as well as in sugar refining, for meat extracts, and for fertilizers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Davy recognized and explained the beneficial fertilizing effects of ammonia, and analysed and explained numerous fertilizers, including guano. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The other important ingredient of most fertilizers is potash. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They knew the value of fertilizers, and adapted their crops to the quality of the ground. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Knowledge, these Germans believed, might be a cultivated crop, responsive to fertilizers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Soil and the fertilizers which enrich it, the plants which grow on it, and the animals which feed on these, all contain nitrogen or nitrogenous compounds. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Inputed by Byron