dinitrogen
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]dinitrogen (uncountable)
- (chemistry) The normal nitrogen molecule having two atoms.
- 2008, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis Neal Irwin, Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 128:
- […] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).
- (chemistry, used in combination) Two atoms of nitrogen as part of some other compound.
- 2023, M. A. Parvez Mahmud, Shahjadi Hisan Farjana, Candace Lang, Green Energy: A Sustainable Future, page 94:
- The emission rates into the air are higher for hydropower plants in nonalpine regions due to higher emission rates of methane biogenic (7.94 × 10−5 kg for nonalpine plants and 3.89 × 10−6 kg for alpine ones), but for dinitrogen monooxide[sic], hydropower plants of alpine regions have higher emission rates (2.14 x 10-8 ky for alpine plants and 1.1 x 10-11 kg for nonalpine ones).