Azote is an old name for nitrogen as in;
Nitrogen \Ni`tro*gen\, n. [L. nitrum natron + -gen:
cf. F. nitrog[`e]ne. See Niter.] (Chem.) 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 (hence the name
azote still used by French chemists); 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.
--- John Berry <antigrav@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> I am interested in some text I found, I typed it out
> so that maybe
> someone with better knowledge of chemistry could
> help answer what this
> man is talking about, He is Martin Ziegler of
> Mulhouse, France. Letter
> patent No. 60,986 dated 1st Jan. 1867.
>
> There is a word he uses asote (and asotie) which I
> don't understand,
> Can
> anyone understand what an asotie body is?
>
> I have observed that whenever asote and carbon, or
> an asotie body and a
> carbonized body, or a body strongly asotie and
> another but slightly so,
> are brought into contact, an imponderable fluid is
> disengaged, the
> presence of which is manifested by certain peculiar
> effects upon animal
> or vegetable organisms. This fluid, which I call
> "vital fluid," is a new
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