Definitions for nitrogens

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nitrogens ni·tro·gen

Spelling: [nahy-truh-juh n]

IPA: /ˈnaɪ trə dʒən/

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

You can make 560 anagrams from letters in nitrogens (eginnorst).

Definitions for nitrogens

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 nitrogens

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

Examples for nitrogens

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

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

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

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

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

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

nitrogen was discovered by the English chemist Rutherford in 1772.

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.

He was the discoverer of nitrogen and several gaseous bodies.