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nitron
Greek · ancient
"soda, natron"
natron, a naturally occurring soda-like mineral
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nitrogene
French · 1790
"nitre-producer"
coined by Chaptal from Greek nitron and -gene (producer), for the gas found in nitre
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nitrogen
English · 1794
"a colorless, mostly inert gas"
adopted from French for the colorless, mostly inert gas
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