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Home Dictionary Name: nitrogenNitrogenous
Of pertaining to or resembling nitrogen as a nitrogenous principle nitrogenous compounds...
Nitrogen
A colorless nonmetallic element of atomic number 7 tasteless and odorless comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume in the form of molecular nitrogen N2 It is chemically very inert in the free state and as such is incapable of supporting life hence the name azote still used by French chemists but it forms many important compounds such as ammonia nitric acid the cyanides etc and is a constituent of all organized living tissues animal or vegetable Symbol N Atomic weight 14007 It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris and Pictet of Geneva and boils at 1958 deg C at atmospheric pressure Liquid nitrogen is used as a refrigerant to store delicate materials such as bacteria cells and other biological materials...
Nitrogenize
To combine or impregnate with nitrogen or its compounds...
Protein
In chemical analysis the total nitrogenous material in vegetable or animal substances obtained by multiplying the total nitrogen found by a factor usually 625 assuming most proteids to contain approximately 16 per cent of nitrogen...
Cyanogen
A colorless inflammable poisonous gas C2N2 with a peach blossom odor so called from its tendency to form blue compounds obtained by heating ammonium oxalate mercuric cyanide etc It is obtained in combination forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements and shows a tendency to form complex compounds The name is also applied to the univalent radical CN the half molecule of cyanogen proper which was one of the first compound radicals recognized...
Denitrification
The act or process of freeing from nitrogen also the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen...
Phenanthroline
Either of two metameric nitrogenous hydrocarbon bases C12H8N2 analogous to phenanthridine but more highly nitrogenized...
Betaine
A nitrogenous base C5H11NO2 produced artificially and also occurring naturally in beet root molasses and its residues from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance called also lycine and oxyneurine It has a sweetish taste...
Biuret
A white crystalline nitrogenous substance C2O2N3H5 formed by heating urea It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid...
Cacodyl
Alkarsin a colorless poisonous arsenical liquid As2CH34 spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines...
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