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nitrogen

/ˈnaɪ.tɹə.dʒən/

noun

a colorless chemical element without a smell that forms most of the earth's atmosphere

  • “The air we breathe consists of oxygen and nitrogen.”Tatoeba
  • “The atmosphere mostly consists of nitrogen and oxygen.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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