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Nitrogen (Azote) Symbol: N (Az, French)

Atomic Number: 7

Melting Point: -209.86 Celsius

Boiling Point: -195.8 Celsius

Non-Metal

Discovery: 1772

Discoverer: Daniel Rutherford

Nitrogen is a gas that is colorless, odorless, and relatively inert. Liquid nitrogen is quite similar to water. This is a picture of a frozen liquid nitogen

Nitrogen gas could not support combustion or living organism.

3 uses: - Harden objects - Lab experiments - Freezing objects 3 facts: - Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (French) named it nitrogen azote. Which mean without life. - ‘burnt’ or ‘dephlogisticated’ air sometimes reffered to nitrogen - Word origin: Latin: //nitrium//, Greek: //niton//

Bibliography: Helmenstine, Anne Marie “Chemical and Physical Properties of Nitrogen.” __Nitrogen or Azote__ __Facts.__ 21 April 2010 <[]>

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