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Nitrogen comes from French "nitrogène," coined 1790 by French chemist Jean Antoine Chaptal (1756-1832), from combination form of Greek nitron "sodium carbonate" (see nitro- ) + French gène "producing," from Greek -gen "giving birth to"

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