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Azote

noun
1.
An obsolete name for nitrogen.






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"Azote" Quotes from Famous Books



... caused by the sensorial power of sensation in consequence of the baneful want of vital air; and not from the accumulation of blood in the lungs, as that might be carried on by inhaling azote alone, without the oxygenous part of the atmosphere. The action of respiration is thus similar to that of swallowing our food to appease the pain of hunger; but the lungs being surrounded with air, their proper pabulum, no intermediate voluntary exertions are required, as in hunger, to obtain and ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... that there is a determinate proportion between the quantities of oxygen, and azote in every portion of atmospherical air, and that all that has hitherto been done has been to separate them from one another. This proportion they state to be 27 parts of oxygen and 73 parts of azote, in 100 of ...
— Priestley in America - 1794-1804 • Edgar F. Smith



Words linked to "Azote" :   azotic, N, nitrogen, atomic number 7



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