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from The Century Dictionary.
- A curt form of
azote in compounds. - noun Same as
azo- , used adjectively without the hyphen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.
- Now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in
azo benzene,azo benzoic, etc. These compounds furnish many artificial dyes. Seediazo- .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- prefix chemistry containing
nitrogen - prefix organic chemistry Having a bivalent
azo group (-N=N-) as a substituent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or containing the azo radical
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