Nitrogen is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NITROGEN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a gaseous element
• colourless odourless gas that forms four fifths of the air
• A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. 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, as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. Symbol N. Atomic weight 14. It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris, and Pictet of Geneva.
• a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues
• the chemical element of atomic number 7, a colourless, odourless unreactive gas that forms about 78 per cent of the earth's atmosphere. Liquid nitrogen (made by distilling liquid air) boils at 77.4 kelvins (−195.8°C) and is used as a coolant

Words related to NITROGEN

azote14 nitrogens10

Words that contain NITROGEN

nitrogens10 dinitrogen12 nitrogenase12 nitrogenise12 nitrogenize21 nitrogenous12 nitrogenases13 nitrogenised14 nitrogenises13 nitrogenized23 nitrogenizes22 nitrogenising15 nitrogenizing24 nonnitrogenous15 nitrogenisation16 nitrogenization25

How to use NITROGEN in a sentence

• By a chemico-vital process, nitrogen builds up and is incorporated in the tissues.
• Professor Roberts, of Cornell University, tells us that an average acre of soil eight inches deep contains three thousand pounds of nitrogen.
• There is a class of plants which have the power of taking free nitrogen from the air.
• Some of them break down the organic matter and help prepare the nitrogen for the larger plants.
• The liquid parts should be saved, as they contain more than half of the nitrogen and potash in the manure.
• It also serves to keep Egyptian soils supplied with nitrogen, for the support of crops grown on them in summer, especially cotton, and various kinds of grain.
• Nitrogen, or rather nitric acid, is the most costly ingredient in plant food, and unfortunately it is very easily washed out of the soil and lost.
• In no case has as much nitrogen been obtained in the increased crop as was applied in the manure.
• If we summer-fallowed for a spring crop, as I have sometimes done, it is quite probable that there would be a loss of nitrogen.
• It is unquestionably true, that the same amount of nitrogen in barn-yard manure, will not produce so great an effect as its theoretical value would indicate.
• They retain the nitrogen and other plant food, and when turned under make manure for the succeeding crops.
• A bed of swamp-muck, easily accessible, and containing 3 per cent of nitrogen, would be a mine of wealth to any farmer.
• But it is worth while to enquire if we can not take such manure as we have, and reduce its weight and bulk without losing any of its nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash.
• These alluvial soils on the borders of creeks and rivers are grand sources of nitrogen and other plant-food.
• If clover got its nitrogen from the atmosphere, we might sell the clover, and depend on the roots left in the ground, to enrich the soil for the next crop.
• How much nitrogen does 10 tons of barn-yard manure contain?” “That depends a good deal on what food the animals eat.
• For many years it was not difficult to find guano containing 13 per cent of nitrogen, and genuine Peruvian guano was the cheapest and best source of available nitrogen.
• During the subsequent combustion, the nitrogen of the amido-phenol becomes fixed in the state of ammonia.

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