nitrogen dioxide

It reacts very readily with oxygen by burning smokelessly, with carbon dioxide and water as its byproducts.

Other psychiatrists attempted to treat schizophrenia with carbon dioxide gas and artificially-induced comas.

There is also more nitrogen in his varieties, and this contributes to a quick restart of fermentation after each filtration.

The higher levels of carbon dioxide will induce something of a feeding frenzy for plants, at least for a while.

Grosvenor Place, which runs alongside the palace, has almost four times the maximum permissible amount of nitrogen dioxide.

Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, but it cannot be formed by the direct union of these gases.

The form in which nitrogen may be absorbed has given rise to much difference of opinion.

Pigeons' dung, according to Boussingault, contains 8·3 per cent of nitrogen, equivalent to 10·0 of ammonia.

Refuse horse hair generally contains 11 or 12 per cent of nitrogen.

Dry peat of good quality contains about one per cent of nitrogen, and a quantity of ash varying from five to twenty per cent.