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Re:Uncleftish Beholding by lordnacho on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:05AM (#19206406)
In Danish nitrogen is "Kvælstof", or "Strangling stuff". From German: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Stickstoff#German

I'm guessing because Nitrogen gas will kill a flame?

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Re:Uncleftish Beholding by kryptiskt on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:29AM (#19206491)
Swedish optimizes that and leave out the "stuff", so we have "syre" and "kväve".
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Re:Uncleftish Beholding by seszett on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:31AM (#19206934)
In French it's azote, meaning lifeless. I think many languages use a variation of this (based on the Greek roots) as well.
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Re:Uncleftish Beholding by PavlikPaja on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:22AM (#19206721)
When you breath pure nitrogen, you suffocate without really noticing anything.
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Re:Uncleftish Beholding by arethuza on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:41AM (#19206970)
There have been suggestions that nitrogen could be used as a means of execution:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...

[NB Personally, I'm not in favour of executing anyone, but if you must do it why not do it so that it doesn't cause any suffering?]

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