How to Use nitrogenase in a Sentence

nitrogenase

noun
  • Chan, who’d already been studying nitrogenase for more than a decade at the time, gave a talk on the enzyme.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • But for years, nitrogenase had also served as a proof-of-concept target in the realm of quantum computing.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • But 3 billion years ago, the nitrogen floodgates opened when nitrogenase evolved in early prokaryotes.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • The Debate Shifts Chan hopes that the technical breakthroughs his team made can now be extended to model the full nitrogenase enzyme and its reaction.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • Before nitrogenase evolved, living things were limited by the amount of nitrogen available to be incorporated into organic matter.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • Solving this particular problem about nitrogenase may not settle the debate over quantum computers just yet, but each step toward understanding the enzyme’s full chemistry makes the debate less hypothetical.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • The scientific one — understanding how nitrogenase, tucked inside an ordinary soil bacterium, accomplishes what the Haber-Bosch process requires an industrial furnace to do — remained open.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • The status of nitrogenase as an informal quantum computing benchmark traces back to a 2011 meeting Microsoft organized to explore applications for its nascent quantum computing group.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • In early January, Chan and five other quantum chemists based out of the California Institute of Technology reached a key milestone in understanding the enzyme nitrogenase, which converts atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia and makes life on our planet possible.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2026

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