nitrogen
nounEtymology
Borrowed from French nitrogène (coined by French chemist and physician Jean-Antoine Chaptal in 1790). By surface analysis, nitro- + -gen. See also niter.
- borrowed from nitrogène
Definitions
The chemical element with an atomic number of 7 and atomic weight of 14.0067. It is a…
The chemical element with an atomic number of 7 and atomic weight of 14.0067. It is a colorless and odorless gas.
- 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.
Molecular nitrogen (diatomic nitrogen), N₂, a colorless, odorless gas at room…
Molecular nitrogen (diatomic nitrogen), N₂, a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature, which constitutes most of air (78% of it).
- Meronyms: nitrogen (strict sense), N
- The air you breathe is mostly nitrogen.
- The truck was carrying tanks of nitrogen, so there was no fire risk. Police stated that if the truck had been carrying tanks of oxygen, as it often does, there might have been an explosion.
A specific nitrogen atom within a chemical formula, or a specific isotope of nitrogen.
- The two nitrogens are located next to one another on the ring.
The neighborhood
- synonymazote
- synonymE941 when used as a packaging gas
- synonympropellant
- neighborniter
- neighbornitre
- neighbornitrate
- neighbornitric
- neighbornitride
- neighbornitrification
- neighbornitrify
- neighbornitrite
- neighbornitr-
- neighbornitro-
- neighbornitrous
- neighboraqua fortis
Derived
antinitrogen, carbon-nitrogen cycle, carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle, dinitrogen, hydronitrogen, lean nitrogen oxide trap, liquid nitrogen, multinitrogen, nitragin, nitrian, nitrogen-13, nitrogen-14, nitrogen-15, nitrogenase, nitrogenate, nitrogen balance, nitrogen cycle, nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen fixation, nitrogen fixer, nitrogen fixing, nitrogen-fixing, nitrogenic, nitrogen ice, nitrogeniferous, nitrogen inversion, nitrogenise, nitrogenize, nitrogenization, nitrogenless, nitrogenlike, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen mustard, nitrogen narcosis, nitrogenous, nitrogen oxide, nitrogen pentoxide, nitrogen tetroxide, nitrogen tribromide, nitrogen trichloride · +8 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at nitrogen. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at nitrogen. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at nitrogen
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA