nitrogens

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of nitrogen.
  nitrogen

  noun

  a colorless, odorless, gaseous element that constitutes about four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere and is present in combined form in animal and vegetable tissues, especially in proteins: used chiefly in the manufacture of ammonia, nitric acid, cyanide, explosives, fertilizer, dyes, as a cooling agent, etc. N; 14.0067; 7; density: 1.2506 grams/liter at 0°C and 760 millimeters pressure.

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nitrogens

Serotonin is a tiny molecule, a bibelot built of just 10 carbon atoms, a dozen hydrogens, two nitrogens and a single oxygen.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2011

I observed much and confusing talk of the value of nitrogens, proteids and—when I had reached the ultra-modernists—vitamines.

From One Third Off by Tony Sarg

I can eat starches, and albumens, all right, but I have to keep right away from all carbons and nitrogens.

From Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy by Stephen Leacock

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