nitrogen
English
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| Chemical element | |
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| N | |
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| Next: oxygen (O) | |
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French nitrogène (coined by French chemist and physician Jean-Antoine Chaptal in 1790). By surface analysis, nitro- + -gen. See also niter.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: nī′trə-jən, IPA(key): /ˈnaɪ.tɹə.d͡ʒən/, [ˈnɐɪ.t͡ʃʰɹə.d͡ʒən]
- (Canada, Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈnʌɪ.tɹə.d͡ʒən/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈnɑɪ.tɹə.d͡ʒən/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈnəi.tɹə.d͡ʒən/
- (India) IPA(key): /ˈnaj.ʈɾo.d͡ʒen/
- Rhymes: -aɪtɹəd͡ʒən
- Hyphenation: ni‧tro‧gen
Noun
[edit]nitrogen (countable and uncountable, plural nitrogens)
- (uncountable) The chemical element with an atomic number of 7 and atomic weight of 14.0067. It is a colorless and odorless gas.
- Alternative form: N (symbol)
- Holonyms: dinitrogen, N₂, nitrogen (loose sense)
- By molar fraction, nitric oxide contains equal parts nitrogen and oxygen.
- 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 42:
- 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.
- (loose but very common, even in formal use; uncountable) Molecular nitrogen (diatomic nitrogen), N2, a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature, which constitutes most of air (78% of it).
- Alternative form: N₂ (symbol)
- Synonym: dinitrogen
- 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.
- 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments[1], Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:
- 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.
- (countable) 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- azote (obsolete)
- E941 when used as a packaging gas or propellant
Derived terms
[edit]- 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
- nitrogen trifluoride
- nitrogen triiodide
- nitrophilous
- nitrox
- nonnitrogen
- organonitrogen
- polynitrogen
- radionitrogen
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]chemical element
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Nitrogen on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| N | |
| Previous: carboni (C) | |
| Next: oxigen (O) | |
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French nitrogène.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [niˈtɾɔ.ʒən]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [niˈtɾɔ.d͡ʒen]
Audio (Valencia): (file) - Hyphenation: ni‧trò‧gen
Noun
[edit]nitrogen m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “nitrogen”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “nitrogen”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “nitrogen” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “nitrogen” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
[edit]| Chemical element | |
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| N | |
| Previous: carbon (C) | |
| Next: ilt (O) | |
Etymology
[edit]Derived from French nitrogène. By surface analysis, nitro- + -gen. See also nitrat.
Noun
[edit]nitrogen n (singular definite nitrogenet or nitrogenen, not used in plural form)
Declension
[edit]| neuter gender |
singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | nitrogen | nitrogenet nitrogenen |
| genitive | nitrogens | nitrogenets nitrogenens |
References
[edit]Indonesian
[edit]| Chemical element | |
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| N | |
| Previous: karbon (C) | |
| Next: oksigen (O) | |
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Dutch nitrogeen, from French nitrogène.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /niˈtroɡen/ [niˈt̪ro.ɡɛn]
- Rhymes: -oɡen
- Syllabification: ni‧tro‧gen
Noun
[edit]nitrogén (plural nitrogen)
Derived terms
[edit]- bernitrogen (“containing nitrogen”)
Compounds
[edit]- nitrogen dioksida (“nitrogen dioxide”)
Descendants
[edit]- → Tetum: nitrogen
Further reading
[edit]
nitrogen on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia id- “nitrogen”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Malay
[edit]| Chemical element | |
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| N | |
| Previous: karbon (C) | |
| Next: oksigen (O) | |
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English nitrogen, derived from French nitrogène.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (English-based, colloquial) IPA(key): /najˈtrod͡ʒən/ [nai̯ˈt̪ro.d͡ʒən]
- Rhymes: -od͡ʒən
- (Baku) IPA(key): /nitˈroɡən/ [nit̪̚ˈro.ɡən]
- Rhymes: -oɡən
- Hyphenation: ni‧tro‧gen
Noun
[edit]nitrogen (Jawi spelling نيتروݢن, plural nitrogen-nitrogen or nitrogen2)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]nitrogen n (definite singular nitrogenet, indefinite plural nitrogen, definite plural nitrogena or nitrogenene)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “nitrogen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]nitrogen n (definite singular nitrogenet) (uncountable)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “nitrogen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
[edit]| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| N | |
| Previous: carbon (C) | |
| Next: oxigen (O) | |
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French nitrogène.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nitrogen m (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | nitrogen | nitrogenul |
| genitive-dative | nitrogen | nitrogenului |
| vocative | nitrogenule | |
References
[edit]- “nitrogen”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
Tetum
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Indonesian nitrogen.
Noun
[edit]nitrogen
- nitrogen (chemical element)
- Synonym: nitrojéniu
Further reading
[edit]- Catharina Williams-van Klinken (2023), GLOSARIU termu saude ho mediku (Tetun/Ingles) [Tetun/English glossary of health and medical terms] (in Tetum), Dili: Dili Institute of Technology
Welsh
[edit]| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| N | |
| Previous: carbon (C) | |
| Next: ocsigen (O) | |
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English nitrogen, from French nitrogène, from French nitre, from Latin nitrum (“niter, natron”), from Ancient Greek νίτρον (nítron), ultimately from Egyptian nṯrj (“natron”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nitrogen m (uncountable, not mutable)
Derived terms
[edit]- cyfansoddyn nitrogen (“nitrogen compound”)
- cylchred nitrogen (“nitrogen cycle”)
- dadansoddiad isotop nitrogen (“nitrogen isotope analysis”)
- dyddio nitrogen (“nitrogen dating”)
- nitrogen anorganig (“inorganic nitrogen”)
- nitrogen deuocsid (“nitrogen dioxide”)
- nitrogen maethol (“nutrient nitrogen”)
- nitrogen monocsid (“nitrogen monoxide”)
- nitrogen ocsid (“nitrogen oxide”)
- nitrogen organig (“organic nitrogen”)
- nitrogenaidd (“nitrogenous”)
- sefydlogiad nitrogen (“nitrogen fixation”)
References
[edit]- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “nitrogen”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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