nitrogen dioxide

English

nitrogen dioxide (uncountable)

(inorganic chemistry) The binary compound NO₂, a brownish gas that is a poisonous air pollutant; it exists in equilibrium with dinitrogen tetroxide.
- 2021 October 6, Philip Haigh, “Pollutants and air quality on our trains”, in RAIL, number 941, page 32:
  Black carbon is the sooty material ejected from diesel engines in their exhaust gases. RSSB notes that it can cause lung diseases. Nitrogen dioxide is also a product of burning diesel and can effect people's lungs.

the binary compound NO₂

Asturian: dióxidu de nitróxenu m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 二氧化氮 (ji⁶ joeng⁵ faa³ daam⁶)

Mandarin: 二氧化氮 (zh) (èryǎnghuàdàn)
Czech: oxid dusičitý m
Finnish: typpidioksidi (fi)
French: dioxyde d’azote (fr) m
German: Stickstoffdioxid n, Nitrogendioxid n
Hungarian: nitrogén-dioxid (hu)
Italian: biossido di azoto m, diossido di azoto m, ipoazotide (it) f
Japanese: 二酸化窒素 (nisanka chisso)
Korean: 이산화질소(二酸化窒素) (isanhwajilso)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nitrogendioksid n

Nynorsk: nitrogendioksid n
Polish: dwutlenek azotu (pl) m
Portuguese: dióxido de nitrogênio m (Brazil), dióxido de nitrogénio m (Portugal), dióxido de azoto m (Portugal)
Romanian: dioxid de azot
Spanish: dióxido de nitrógeno m

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