azote
/azóté/
- noun , class(9)
- dialects/origins: Standard Shona
- English translation
- nitrogen
- 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.
Shona | English |
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azote iyi | this nitrogen |
azote iyo | that nitrogen |
Shona | English |
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azote yangu | my nitrogen |
azote yako | your nitrogen (singular) |
azote yenyu | your nitrogen (plural) |
azote yake | his/her nitrogen |
azote yedu | our nitrogen |
azote yacho | its nitrogen |
azote yavo | their nitrogen |
last updated: Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 10:29:19 PM Central European Summer Time
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