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azote

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈæzəʊt/Part of speech nounSorted aeotzStarts with AEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an obsolete name for nitrogen

Word origin

Borrowed from French azote, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without”) + ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + -τικός (-tikós, “adjective suffix”). Named by French chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier, who saw it as the part of air which cannot sustain life.

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  • Azote is one of the most abundant elements in nature, and combined with calorique or heat, it forms azotic gas or phlogistic air, and composes two thirds of the atmosphere […].
  • The proportion of azote gas to that of the oxigen obtained is as 64 to 36.
  • Those who have adopted these opinions, represent the atom of azote by the number 1.75. We consider the 5 compounds of azote and oxygen, as composed of 1 atom azote, united with 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, atoms of oxygen.

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