The term azote and symbol Az are still retained by the French chemists. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
The French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier named nitrogen azote, meaning without life. From Wordnik.com. [About.com Chemistry] Reference
The French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier named nitrogen azote, meaning "without life.". From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
The subjoined is a statement of the gelatine and tannin in leather of different tannages, and also shows the amount of azote or elementary matter contained in each. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881] Reference
During experiments with the inhaling of protoxyde of azote, H. Davy said that normal consciousness disappeared, and was followed by a wonderful power of recalling past events. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
On the other hand, were the atmosphere wholly composed of azote, life could never have existed, whether animal or vegetable, and the objects of the Creator in forming this world would not be fulfilled. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832] Reference
It is not, like indigo, a substance combined with azote. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
But nature does not supply either oxygen or azote in a separate state. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
Hydrogen is to the electrical azote, as azote to the magnetic hydrogen. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference
To live as Harrington has lived of late, is to breathe little but azote. From Wordnik.com. [The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic] Reference
Baltic wheat contains 6-7 per cent, of azote, and Algerian, 20-25 Per cent. From Wordnik.com. [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference
If the lamp was moved horizontally, the azote came in contact with the flame and extinguished it. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference
When a country has been long cultivated, it is not the proportions between azote and oxygen that vary. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference
This proportion they state to be 27 parts of oxygen and 73 parts of azote, in 100 of atmospherical air. From Wordnik.com. [Priestley in America 1794-1804] Reference
Será el 11 de marzo cuando se inicie la nueva legislatura, marcada ya por el azote inesperado del temblor. From Wordnik.com. [Elites TV] Reference
Sulphur has no chemical attraction for azote, at least no com - pound of these bodies has as yet been formed. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1] Reference
The following experiment shews the power of light in separating vital air from another basis, viz. from azote. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
These miasms are probably ternary or quaternary combinations of azote, phosphorus, hydrogen, carbon, and sulphur. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Has not the soul that animates the body as good a right to exist as each one of its molecules of oxygen, azote or iron?. From Wordnik.com. [Part III, Chapter I of "Uranie"] Reference
When a country has been long subjected to cultivation, it is not the proportions between the azote and oxygen that vary. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Nothing proves that oxygen combines (in the system) with hydrogen and carbon in particular, rather than with sulphur and azote. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
To make an atmosphere which human life can breathe, oxygen must be combined with a great deal -- with three-fourths -- of azote. From Wordnik.com. [Amiel's Journal] Reference
Humboldt noticed that the gas which issues from these small volcanoes was a far purer azote than could then be obtained by chemical laboratories. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
If we take three parts of azote and one of oxygen, and mix them together, we shall form an air in every respect similar to that of the atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
Never, since man came into this atmosphere of oxygen and azote, was there anything like the condition of the young American of the nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
The parts contributed by the earth, those which are drawn up through the roots, are gases also, and of the same nature, azote, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Part III, Chapter V of "Uranie"] Reference
The azote is diminished in the growth of animal bodies, of which it constitutes an important part, and in its combinations with many other natural productions. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
As animal bodies consist much both of oxygen and azote, which make up the composition of atmospheric air, these should be counted amongst nutritious substances. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Nothing could live in it, as you may suppose; and Lavoisier thought it must be right to give so destructive a gas the name of azote, which in Greek means "opposed to life.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals] Reference
The crater of the Peak has so little depth, and the air is renewed with so much facility, that it is scarcely probable the quantity of azote is greater there than on the coasts. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
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