Definitions
Gas that makes up most of the air
Word origin
Borrowed from French nitrogène (coined by French chemist and physician Jean-Antoine Chaptal in 1790). By surface analysis, nitro- + -gen. See also niter.
Used in a sentence
“Holonyms: dinitrogen, N₂, nitrogen (loose sense)”
“By molar fraction, nitric oxide contains equal parts nitrogen and oxygen.”
“All life depends on nitrogen; it is the building block from which nature assembles amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids; the genetic information that orders and perpetuates life is written in nitrogen ink.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Most common air gas”8 letters
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