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Nitrogenium Nitrogen
Stikstof – Stickstoff – Azote – Nitrógeno – 窒素 – Азот – 氮
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Multilingual dictionary
Indo-European
Nitrogenium Latin Germanic
Stikstof AfrikaansNitrogen, Kvælstof Danish Stickstoff German Nitrogen English Køvievni Faroese Stikstof Frisian (West) Nitur, ²Köfnunarefni Icelandic Stéckstoff Luxembourgish Stikstof Dutch Nitrogen Norwegian Kväve Swedish Italic
Nitrochén AragoneseNitroghenu Aromanian Nitróxenu Asturian Nitrogen Catalan Nitrógeno Spanish Azote French Azot Friulian Nitróxeno Galician Azoto Italian Azòot Lombard Azòt Occitan Nitrogénio Portuguese Azot, ²Nitrogen Romanian - Moldovan Slavic
Азот [Azot] BulgarianAzot, ²Dušik Bosnian Азот [azot] Belarusian Dusík Czech Dušik Croatian Tãcheń Kashubian Азот [Azot] Macedonian Azot Polish Азот [Azot] Russian Dusík Slovak Dušik Slovenian Азот [Azot] Serbian Азот [azot] Ukrainian Baltic
Azotas LithuanianSlāpeklis Latvian Azuots Samogitian Celtic
Azot, Nitrogen BretonNitrogen Welsh Nítrigin Gaelic (Irish) Nìtrigin Gaelic (Scottish) Neetragien Gaelic (Manx) Nytrojen Cornish Other Indo-European
Αζωτο [azōto] GreekԱզոտ [azot] Armenian Azot[i] Albanian Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Nîtrojen, Azot KurdishАзот [azot] Ossetian Нитроген [Nitrogen] Tajik Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
নাইট্রোজেন [nāiṭrojena] Bengaliنیتروژن [nytrwžn] Persian નાઇટ્રોજન [nāiṭrojana] Gujarati नाइट्रोजन [nāiṭrojana] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Lämmastik EstonianTyppi Finnish Nitrogén Hungarian Азот [Azot] Komi Азот [Azot] Mari Азота [azota] Moksha Hüdsäsnik Võro Altaic
Azot AzerbaijaniАзот [Azot] Chuvash Азот [azot] Kazakh Азот [Azot] Kyrgyz Азот [azot] Mongolian Azot Turkish ئازوت ['azot] Uyghur Azot Uzbek Other (Europe)
Nitrogenoa Basqueაზოტი [azoti] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
نيتروجين [nītrūjīn] Arabicחנקן [hankan] Hebrew Najtroġin, ²Ażotu Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Tham (氮) Hakka窒素 [chisso] Japanese 질소 [jilso] Korean ไนโตรเจน [naitrōchēn] Thai Nitơ Vietnamese 氮 [dan4 / daam6] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Nitrógeno CebuanoNitrogen Indonesian Hauota Māori Nitrogen Malay Other Asiatic
നൈട്രജന് [naiṭrajanam] Malayalamநைதரசன் [naitaracaṉ] Tamil Africa
Azoti LingalaNaetrojene Sesotho Nitrojeni Swahili North-America
Ehēcatehuiltic NahuatlSouth-America
Qullpachaq, ²Nitruhinu QuechuaCreole
Swariskotriki Sranan TongoArtificial
Nitrogeno EsperantoNew names
Nitron Atomic ElementsAzotc Dorseyville |
History & Etymology
It was known during the 18th century that air contains at least two gases, one of which supports combustion and life, and the other of which does not. In the 1770s several chemists studied the so-called "burnt" or "phlogisticated" air (N2; from Greek φλογιστος = burnt), as air without oxygen was then called, but Daniel Rutherford (1749-1819), a medical student in Scotland, was first to publish his discovery of "noxious air" (nitrogen) in his dissertation Disseratio inauguralis de aere fixo dicto, aut mephitico (Inaugural dissertation on the air called fixed or mephite), dated 12 September 1772. He showed that the air in which animals had breathed, even after removal of the exhaled carbon dioxide, was no longer able to burn a candle.
Azote → Salpeterstoff → Nitrogène
In 1775-76 Antoine Lavoisier suggested that this gas was an element and proposed in 1789 the name Azote, because it did not support respiration and was therefore "lifeless". The name is derived from Greek α (a privativum meaning "the opposite of") and ζώω [zōō] = to life. In his Traité élémentaire de chimie of 1789 Lavoisier wrote:
Variant names
As you see in the list to the left, derivations from nitrogène as well as azote are in use in the several languages. Other languages have their own form, usually related with "to suffocate", since you suffocate in air without oxygen:
Geocoronium
During the eclipse of 1869, astronomers recorded unexpected spectral lines in the Sun's corona that they ascribed to the presence of a new element which they called Coronium (see Iron). Similar lines were later discovered to originate nearer the Earth; these were attributed to Geocoronium. The Swedish astrophysicist Bengt Edlén found in the 1950s that the lines thought to be caused by Geocoronium were produced by atomic Nitrogen emitting radiation in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
Chemistianity 1873
BAGEN
NITROGEN, Moderator to Queen Oxygen, Is a colourless gaseous metalloid, Lighter than Air, and without odour or taste. It is uninflammable, and therefore Per se extinguishes combustion and life, Its presence in Air is wisely ordained To delute the Oxygen with which it's found In a diffused but not in a combined state. Pure Nitrogen stifles all Animal And Fuel combustion, yet it is not pois'nous. Further reading
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