Meaning & use
azote
An old chemical name for nitrogen, once used because the gas does not support life or combustion.
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Eighteenth-century chemists called nitrogen azote, from a Greek word meaning without life.
The term azote survives today in French and a few other languages as the word for nitrogen.
A note on using this word
Azote is now obsolete in English chemistry, replaced by 'nitrogen,' though the name lives on in other languages such as French.
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nitrogen
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