Citations:nitrox

English citations of nitrox

(agriculture) A slow-acting fertilizer made from crushed animal parts.
- 1921 October, “Trials of Nitrogenous Manures on Tea”, in The Tropical Agriculturist, page 215:
  A study of the curves shown in Fig. 2 shows that the effects of the nitrox and of the oilcake were very similar. [...] Nitrox is a mixture of sinews and hoofs and horns, crushed and torn into as fine a state of division as such material can reasonably be expected to attain.
(chemistry) A (proprietary?) technique for concentrating nitrogen isotopes.
- 1957 June 6, G. M. Begun et al., “Abstract”, in Chemical and Isotopic Studies of the Nitrox System for N¹⁵ Enrichment (ORNL-2291), Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, page 1:
  The Nitrox system for concentration of nitrogen isotopes has been studied in detail; in this system use is made of the exchange reaction between nitric acid and the oxides of nitrogen.
(chemistry, historical) In the works of the British chemist Humphry Davy (1778–1829): a compound formed from a chemical reaction between nitrous oxide and an alkali.
- 1802 July, “Art. VIII.—Researches, Chemical and Philosophical; Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration. By Humphry Davy, Superintendent of the Medical Pneumatic Institution. 8vo. 7s. Boards. Johnson. [book review]”, in The Critical Review; or, Annals of Literature, Extended & Improved, volume XXXV, number V, London: Printed by and for S. Hamilton, […], →OCLC, page 297:
  These compounds he [Humphry Davy] styles nitroxes, and affirms that the nitrous oxyd is of an acid nature; but as it does not redden the blue vegetable juices, and has not a distinct acid taste, he considers it for the present as a body sui generis.
(semiconductors) Silicon oxynitride, an inorganic chemical compound used to bond silicon wafers during the semiconductor manufacturing process.
- [1973, 1973 Wescon Professional Program: Improving Producibility: […], [San Francisco, Calif.: Western Electronic Show and Convention], →OCLC:
  Next, the wafers are coated with "nitrox", which is the industry jargon for a dual layer: silicon nitride over the epi layer, then silicon dioxide over the silicon nitride.
  Not sure whether this is a reference to the same thing.]
- 1994 April 1, Jack H. Linn et al., Bonded Wafer Processing with Oxidative Bonding, International Patent Publication No. WO 94/23444, page 8:
  This creates bonded zone 315 of a mixture of silicon oxynitrides ("nitrox") connecting the remainder of device wafer 302 to oxide 316 and handle wafer 312.
- 1999 May 21, Jack H. Linn et al., Bonded Wafer with Metal Silicidation, US Patent 6,909,146 (PDF version), column 7:
  This drives polysilicon 517 to react with tungsten 518 to form tungsten silicide, WSi₂, and drives oxidizer 505 to react with polysilicon 514 to form silicon oxynitrides ("nitrox"). The tungsten also reacts with the nitrox, thereby binding the wafers if polysilicon 514 is consumed.