Definitions for nitrogen

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nitrogen ni·tro·gen

Spelling: [nahy-truh-juh n]

IPA: /ˈnaɪ trə dʒən/

Nitrogen is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 265 anagrams from letters in nitrogen (eginnort).

Definitions for nitrogen

noun

1. 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. Symbol: N; atomic weight: 14.0067; atomic number: 7; density: 1.2506 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.

Origin of nitrogen

From the French word nitrogène, dating back to 1785-95. See nitro-, -gen

Examples for nitrogen

However, what odds how you take your carbon and nitrogen and oxygen, as long as you DO get it?

nitrogen will not burn and it will not help anything else to burn.

Butter contains carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, and no nitrogen.

They pass away, as we know, to dust and to oxygen and nitrogen and so on.

So it is well for us that air is only a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen, and not a compound.

He was the discoverer of nitrogen and several gaseous bodies.

nitrogen-fixing bacteria also add to the stores of nitrogen compounds.

nitrogen was discovered by the English chemist Rutherford in 1772.

Grosvenor Place, which runs alongside the palace, has almost four times the maximum permissible amount of nitrogen dioxide.

How could you distinguish between oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen?