Some contain azotic gas, which contributes to produce nitre. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
This was ascribed to the union of the azotic part of the atmosphere with the effused pus in. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
The worm, then, feeds on the fat of the earth, which he converts into azotic aliment for the use of moles, hens and Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals] Reference
Dr. Priestley obtained air of greater or less purity, both vital and azotic, from almost all the fossil substances he subjected to experiment. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
I could, perhaps, show chymically how the atmosphere of the closed rooms becomes thus azotic, but I prefer to submit to the test of your senses. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete] Reference
When applied to or - ganic bodies, containing moisture, it rapidly destroys their adhesion, or continuity of parts, and disengages from them inflammable air, and azotic or phlogisticated air, forming volatile alkali. From Wordnik.com. [A treatise, shewing the intimate connection that subsists between agriculture and chemistry, addressed to the cultivators of the soil, to the proprietors of fens and mosses, in Great Britain and Ireland; and to the proprietors of West India estates] Reference
I have proved by experiments published in 1797, that the shining of wood is extinguished in hydrogen gas, and in pure azotic gas, and that its light reappears whenever we mix with it the smallest bubble of oxygen gas. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
On plunging a combustible body into the remaining air, it is instantly extinguished; an animal in the same situation is immediately deprived of life: from this latter circumstance this air has been called azote, or azotic gas. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
This is the only observation on record of a gaseous exhalation of azote by perfect vegetables, and the facility with which this principle is abandoned by ammonia may, perhaps, explain the presence of azotic products in the vegetable kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
It required, he observed, to be kept very steady when burning in the inflammable gas, otherwise it was liable to go out, in consequence, as he imagined, of the contact of the burnt air (as he then called it), or azotic gas, which lodged round the exterior of the flame. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference
N. - nitrogen. azotaemia, azotemia, n. excess of nitrogen in blood. azotic, adj. azotize, azoth. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Thefe turned blue by heating; the inclofcd air loft about 20 per cent, of its bulk, became azotic, and afforded a very (light precipitate from lime-water. From Wordnik.com. [The Monthly Review] Reference
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