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Nitrogen gets its name from "Niter" (Potassium Nitrate, KNO3) + Latin. gènere,

You can use Potassium Nitrate to prepare Nitrogen.

From Latin nitrogenium or French nitrogène.

Nitrogen had been elementally found in nitric acid, which in turn is formed from saltpetre (potassium nitrate), in Lavoisier's time known as 'nitre'.

However, this word in the more ancient world, originally described sodium (Na, Latin 'natron') salts that did not contain nitrate, and so the word is a cognate of natronand nitron.

The last part, gènere , means "producing" (from Gk. -γενής means "forming" or "giving birth to" compare 'genisis').

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