Each of these 8 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
a name formerly given to nitrogen; hence substances containing nitrogen and forming part of the structure of plants and animals are known as azotized bodies. Such are albumen, fibrine, casein, gelatine, urea, kreatine, etc.
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a substance procured by decomposing wool by the action of steam at 150° C. under a pressure of five atmospheres; the product, afterward dried by evaporation, contains nitrogen completely soluble in water. Azotine is mixed with dried blood for a fertilizer.
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a town in the Spanish province of Guipuzcoa, in a fine valley on the Urola, 18 miles S. W. of San Sebastian. A mile from it is the famous convent of Loyola, now converted into a museum (1683). It comprises a tower of the Santa Casa, in which St. Ignatius of Loyola, the great founder of the Jesuits, was born in 1491. Here every year in July a great festival is held in his honor, to which pilgrims flock from all quarters.
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BAHR-EL, or the BLUE RIVER, the principal stream of Abyssinia, which, after a winding course through Abyssinia and Sennaar, falls into the Nile above Gerri.
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or AZURINE, blue dyes belonging to the coal-tar class.
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DOMENICO ALBERTO (azö'nē), an Italian jurist, born in Sassari, Sardinia, in 1749. He became judge of the Tribunal of Commerce at Nice, and in 1795 published a work in which he endeavored to reduce maritime laws to fixed principles, and which appeared in French in 1805, under the title of "Droit Maritime de l'Europe." Napoleon appointed him one of the commissioners for compiling the new commercial code. He died Jan. 23, 1827.
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the heraldic term for the color blue, represented in engraving by horizontal lines.
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a fresh water fish of the same genus as the roach, chub and minnow; called also blue roach.
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