Azote Definition

azōt, əzōt
noun

Nitrogen.

Webster's New World
1823, Chemistry, entry in Charles Maclaren (chief edit), Encyclopædia Britannica, 6th Edition, page 366,
Hence it is obvious that deutoxide of azote is a compound of one volume of azote and one volume of oxygen gas united together, without any alteration of volume, consequently its specific gravity is the mean of that of oxygen and azotic gases.It is composed, by weight, of azote 0.9722 or 1.75, oxygen 1.1111 or 2. If we reckon the atomic weight of azote 1.75, this gas is obviously a compound of one atom azote and two atoms oxygen.
Wiktionary
1831, Thomas Thomson, A System of Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies, Volume 1, page 133,
Those who have adopted these opinions, represent the atom of azote by the number 1.75. We consider the 5 compounds of azote and oxygen, as composed of 1 atom azote, united with 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, atoms of oxygen.
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Origin of Azote

  • From French azote, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without”) + ζωή (zōē, “life”). Named by French chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier, who saw it as the part of air which cannot sustain life.

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Azote Sentence Examples

  • Thus oxygen gas, at the end of the 18th century, was known as dephlogisticated air, nitrogen or azote as phlogisticated air, hydrogen as inflammable air, carbonic acid gas as fixed air.

  • Then, perceiving that in combustion and the calcination of metals only a portion of a given volume of common air was used up, he concluded that Priestley's new air, air eminemment pur, was what was absorbed by burning phosphorus, &c., "non-vital air," azote, or nitrogen remaining behind.

  • It has been supposed that this theory was suggested to him either by researches on olefiant gas and carburetted hydrogen or by analysis of "protoxide and deutoxide of azote," both views resting on the authority of Dr Thomas Thomson (1773-1852), professor of chemistry in Glasgow university.

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