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azote

[ az-oht, ey-zoht, uh-zoht ]

noun

Chemistry.


azote

/ ˈeɪzəʊt; əˈzəʊt /

noun

  1. an obsolete name for nitrogen
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of azote1

1785–95; < French < Greek áōٴDz ungirt, taken to mean lifeless
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of azote1

C18: from French, from Greek ōٴDz ungirded, intended for Greek ōDz lifeless
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Example Sentences

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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".

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To impregnate with azote, or nitrogen; to nitrogenize.

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Magendie attributes the nutritious principle to the greater or lesser proportion of nitrogen or azote.

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Meerbitzer could not explain to himself this most suspicious blast, which blew real azote, and a deadly simoom-wind, upon him; and all his warm constituent principles began to shoot into icicles.

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The proportion of carbonic acid is somewhat greater than in the air of the streets overhead, that of ammoniacal azote is much more considerable, and that of bacteria only half as great.

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