Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is considered the “father of modern chemistry”. He suggested the name azote for nitrogen. In the Greek language, azote means “no life”. Lavoisier knew that nitrogen gas, if breathed, could lead to death by suffocation.
Some languages such as French, Russian and Turkish use the word azote for nitrogen. And, in the English language some nitrogen compounds use a form of the word azote. For example compounds that contain an “azo group” which is the bond formed by two nitrogen atoms as in -N=N- include a large class of synthetic organic dyes referred to azo dyes.
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