azote
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of azote
1785–95; < French < Greek ázōtos ungirt, taken to mean lifeless
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Flames are extinguished and animals die in an atmosphere of pure nitrogen - so it was once known as "azote", Greek for "lifeless".
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2014
When combined with oxygen, azote forms the nitrous and nitric oxyds and acids; when with hydrogen, ammoniac is produced.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine
This is of course the color of the pure atmospheric air, not the aqueous vapor, but the pure azote and oxygen, and it is the � 5.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John
Humboldt noticed that the gas which issues from these small volcanoes was a far purer azote than could then be obtained by chemical laboratories.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon
As animal bodies consist much both of oxygen and azote, which make up the composition of atmospheric air, these should be counted amongst nutritious substances.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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