In a method for obtaining dinitrogen
monoxide by microbiological or enzymatic processes from
nitrogen-containing substances, the microorganisms,
bacteria,
archaea, eukaryotes, fungi, parasites, phages, cells,
cell fractions or membrane fractions, and / or enzymes, and / or a combination thereof to be used in this context are selected, or manipulated or partly or entirely reversibly and / or irreversibly inhibited by suitable actions, or the corresponding microbiological or enzymatic processes are controlled, for example, by way of suitable
process conditions, so that, in part or entirely, dinitrogen
monoxide (N2O) is formed from the
nitrogen-containing compounds of the
nitrogen-containing substances.