azote

• “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.”

  Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease

• “The common air of the atmosphere appears by the analysis of Dr. Priestley and other philosophers to consist of about three parts of an elastic fluid unfit for respiration or combustion, called azote by the French school, and about one fourth of pure vital air fit for the support of animal life and of combustion, called oxygene.”

  The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation

• “The French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier named nitrogen azote, meaning without life.”

  About.com Chemistry

• “The French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier named nitrogen azote, meaning "without life.”

  Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth

• “They will revere the dead Great and respect the new Academic, read the living quack, miss and neglect the living promise, and become just a fresh volume of that atmosphere of azote, in which our literature stifles.”

  Mankind in the Making

• “This proportion they state to be 27 parts of oxygen and 73 parts of azote, in 100 of atmospherical air.”

  Priestley in America 1794-1804

• “The molecules of oxygen, of hydrogen, of carbonic acid gas, of azote, which constituted those bodies, have enriched the earth and entered again into atmospheric circulation.”

  Part III, Chapter I of "Uranie"

• “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?”

  Part III, Chapter I of "Uranie"

• “On the one side the oxygen of the air consumes the carbon of the blood; on the other, the lungs exhale carbonic acid, azote and watery vapor.”

  Part III, Chapter V of "Uranie"

• “Analyzing the substance of our bodies you will find in it albumen, fibrine, caseine and gelatine, that is to say organic substances composed originally of the four essential gases: oxygen, azote, hydrogen, and carbonic acid.”

  Part III, Chapter V of "Uranie"

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