The present participle of azotise, describing the ongoing process of adding nitrogen to a chemical substance.
British spelling variant of 'azotizing.' The -ing form comes from Old English gerund formation, while the root traces back to 'azote' (nitrogen) from 18th-century French chemistry terminology.
This word captures the moment when British and American chemistry labs chose different spellings—like watching language split into dialects in real-time through scientific papers.
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