nitrogen dioxide

English

Noun

nitrogen dioxide (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) The binary compound NO₂, a brownish gas that is a poisonous air pollutant; it exists in equilibrium with dinitrogen tetroxide.
   • 2021 October 6, Philip Haigh, “Pollutants and air quality on our trains”, in RAIL, number 941, page 32:

     Black carbon is the sooty material ejected from diesel engines in their exhaust gases. RSSB notes that it can cause lung diseases. Nitrogen dioxide is also a product of burning diesel and can effect people's lungs.

Translations

the binary compound NO₂

• Asturian: dióxidu de nitróxenu m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 二氧化氮 (ji⁶ joeng⁵ faa³ daam⁶)

  Mandarin: 二氧化氮 (zh) (èryǎnghuàdàn)

• Czech: oxid dusičitý m
• Finnish: typpidioksidi (fi)
• French: dioxyde d’azote (fr) m
• German: Stickstoffdioxid n, Nitrogendioxid n
• Hungarian: nitrogén-dioxid (hu)
• Indonesian: nitrogen dioksida
• Italian: biossido di azoto m, diossido di azoto m, ipoazotide (it) f
• Japanese: 二酸化窒素 (nisanka chisso)
• Korean: 이산화질소(二酸化窒素) (isanhwajilso)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nitrogendioksid n

  Nynorsk: nitrogendioksid n

• Polish: dwutlenek azotu (pl) m
• Portuguese: dióxido de nitrogênio m (Brazil), dióxido de nitrogénio m (Portugal), dióxido de azoto m (Portugal)
• Romanian: dioxid de azot
• Spanish: dióxido de nitrógeno m

Further reading

• nitrogen dioxide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dinitrogen oxide