azo
- Adjective. azote, nitrogen.
- Adjective. Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.
- Adjective. Now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group (-N=N-) uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene etc.
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