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A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life ; but it forms many important compounds, as

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A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life ; but it forms many important compounds, as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. Symbol N. Atomic weight 14. It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris, and Pictet of Geneva.

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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• VOLUMENOMETRY
  The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.
• VOLUMENOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• VOLUMETRIC
  Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume. Volumetric analysis , that system of the quantitative analysis of solutions which employs definite volumes of standardized solutions of reagents, as measured by burettes, pipettes, etc.; also, the
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• INERTIA
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• VOLUMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• ATMOSPHERE
  The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. Any gaseous envelope or medium. An atmosphere of cold oxygen. Miller. 2. A supposed
• ODORLESS
  Free from odor.
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• ARISTATE
  Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
• BICOSTATE
  Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
• TRIPLICOSTATE
  Three-ribbed.