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The English word nitrogen (1794) entered the language from the French nitrogène, coined in 1790 by French chemist Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756–1832), from the French nitre (potassium nitrate, also called saltpeter) and the French suffix -gène, "producing", from the Greek -γενής (-genes, "begotten"). Chaptal's meaning was that nitrogen is the essential part of nitric acid, which in turn was produced from nitre. In earlier times, niter had been confused with Egyptian "natron" (sodium carbonate) – called νίτρον (nitron) in Greek – which, despite the name, contained no nitrate.
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∙ 14y agoShh, don't tell anyone I'm letting you in on this. The actual, real, super-scientific name for nitrogen that we don't tell just anybody is ... nitrogen.
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Ammonia's chemical formula is NH3, or Nitrogen trihydride.
What is the explanation for nitrogens scientific name?
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What is the common name for nitrogen hydride?
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normal name: blue-green algae scientific name: cyanobacteria
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