Noun: nitrogen
| Singular | nitrogen |
| Plural | nitrogens |
Sample Sentences
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Holonyms: dinitrogen, N₂, nitrogen (loose sense)
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By molar fraction, nitric oxide contains equal parts nitrogen and oxygen.
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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. [2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 42:]
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Meronyms: nitrogen (strict sense), N
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The air you breathe is mostly nitrogen.
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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.
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Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml. [1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:]
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The two nitrogens are located next to one another on the ring.
Nouns inflected like nitrogen
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French nitrogène (coined by French chemist and physician Jean-Antoine Chaptal in 1790). By surface analysis, nitro- + -gen. See also niter. See: French Nouns '
nitrogène'.