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Nitrogen was discovered in 1772 by Daniel Rutherford who called it noxious air or fixed air. But it was Lavoisier who, in 1786, isolated it. The name nitrogen comes from Latin nitrogenium, where nitrum (from Greek nitron) means "saltpetre", and genes means "forming".

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