azote not sufficiently saturated with oxygen to possess the properties of an acid. To this degree of oxygenation, we have afterwards, in the course of this work, given the generical name of oxyd[1].
- ↑ In strict conformity with the principles of this new nomenclature, but which the Author has given his reasons for deviating from in this instance, the following ought to have been the terms of azote, in its several degrees of oxygenation: Azote, azotic gas, (azote combined with caloric), azotic oxyd gas, nitrous acid, and nitric acid.—E.
