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Azote
//ˈæzəʊt// noun
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Noun
- 1 Nitrogen. historical, uncountable
"Azote is one of the most abundant elements in nature, and combined with calorique or heat, it forms azotic gas or phlogistic air, and composes two thirds of the atmosphere […]."
- 2 an obsolete name for nitrogen wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from French azote, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without”) + ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + -τικός (-tikós, “adjective suffix”). Named by French chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier, who saw it as the part of air which cannot sustain life.
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