Definitions

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  • noun chemistry the normal nitrogen molecule having two atoms
  • noun chemistry two atoms of nitrogen as part of some other compound

Etymologies

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di- +‎ nitrogen

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Examples

  • I became interested in dinitrogen chemistry around 1980, and polymer chemistry (first ring-opening metathesis polymerization and later olefin and acetylene polymerization) a few years after that.

    Richard R. Schrock - Autobiography 2006

  • Time will tell whether these findings are relevant to how dinitrogen is reduced to ammonia in nature on a huge scale by nitrogenase enzymes.

    Richard R. Schrock - Autobiography 2006

  • These creatures, now called anammox bacteria, transform caustic and hazardous ammonium into dinitrogen, the harmless nitrogen gas that makes up 78% of the air we breathe.

    Washing The Water 2010

  • With support of the NIH I also was able to achieve in 2003 a long sought goal for hundreds of researchers over a period of 40 years, the catalytic reduction of dinitrogen with protons and electrons at room temperature and pressure.

    Richard R. Schrock - Autobiography 2006

  • If you compress NO2, you wind up with the dimmer N2O4, dinitrogen tetroxide, which dissociates back to NO2 on pressure release, producing toxic levels of NO2.

    Archive 2007-12-01 James Killus 2007

  • If you compress NO2, you wind up with the dimmer N2O4, dinitrogen tetroxide, which dissociates back to NO2 on pressure release, producing toxic levels of NO2.

    Nitrous James Killus 2007

  • He suggested that dinitrogen monoxide, popularly known as "laughing gas" and formed through microbiological processes in the ground, could have the same effect.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995 - Presentation Speech 1997

  • The most important aspect of tropical legumes is their ability to fix P in association with rhizobium atmospheric dinitrogen which becomes available to subsequent crops in rotational cropping systems.

    1. Soil constraints on sustainable plant production in the tropics. 1992

  • The spacecraft's mass at launch was some 13 tonnes, most of which was the propellants unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and dinitrogen tetroxide (DTO).

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Titan II also used storable propellants, Aerozine 50 and dinitrogen tetroxide.

    WN.com - Articles related to Ariz. governor combats 'mistruths' on immigration law as tourism industry faces boycotts 2010

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