See also Appendix:Variations of "n"

Translingual

Symbol

N

  1. (chemistry) Symbol for nitrogen.
  2. (metrology) Symbol for newton, the SI unit of force.
  3. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for aspargine

Abbreviation

N

  1. (military) Navy
  2. north (see also n)

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N is the fourteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English (pronounced /ɛn/) is spelled en.

Usage

N represents the dental or alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with <n> is <ng>, which represents a velar nasal in a variety of languages, usually positioned word-finally in English. In languages like Italian and French, <gn> represents a palatal nasal (/ɲ/). The Portuguese spelling for this sound is <nh>. In English, n is silent when it is preceded by an m, in words like hymn (although it is pronounced in words such as damnation).

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the lowercase [n] represents the alveolar nasal sound. A small capital [ɴ] represents the uvular nasal.

N is the second-most commonly used consonant in the English language (after T).

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Fri Aug 7 20:59:41 2009

What is the smallest n such that it is impossible to select n coins that make exactly a dollar?
Q. Your math teachers are feeling generous and each student is given n>0 of each of the standard denomination Canadian coins: 1 , 5 , 10 , 25 , 50 , and the always fun $1. Your nath teachers are feeling generous and each student is given n>0 of each of the standard denomination Canadian coins: 1 , 5 , 10 , 25 , 50 , and the always fun $1. What is the smallest n (# of coins) such that it is impossible to select n coins that make exactly a dollar? n = number of coins
Asked by moikiss16 - Wed Sep 26 04:07:50 2007 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. You will only reach 86 cents it can't be done unless you double a coin which is not allowed in this problem. If there was a Seventy five cent piece it could be done with a seventy five cent pieve and a quarter. But because it stars at a half dollar it can never reach a dollar. If there was a 70 cent piece it it could be done with a 70 a 25 and a 5 that would equal a dollar. With the current coins there is no way to reach a dollar without having more than one of the same coin.
Answered by Wade C - Wed Sep 26 04:38:11 2007

How to prove that wheat stubble is sucking up all the available N?
Q. In a lettuce crop in the Yuma area; There is streaking in the field running perpendicular to the beds. The grower is blaming it on the spreader truck, but there is so much trash in the field and it is noticeably more where the plants are stunted. I pulled "good" and "bad" soil samples to be tested for NO3-N, NH4-N, Total N, and Total C. Is this all that I could do? What kind of results on the soil analysis will prove that a combine is at fault? A little more info: The "trash" is wheat stubble. It has been incorporated into the soil by tillage (ripping, discing, leveling and listing). It is more concentrated in certain areas because the combine must not have been spreading the chaff properly... I DO have a GPS record of the spreader… [cont.]
Asked by Patrick D - Wed Feb 4 10:41:43 2009 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. you could have obtained an Organic Matter test. Much of the straw is decomposing which requires Nitrogen to be bound and not available to the plants. there should be very little NO3-N where the straw is heavier, the ammonical N should be higher so I would look at the ratio of the two as well as the ratio to Total N. Until the Organic Matter starts releasing some Nitrogen there will be little change in the Carbon Content. Total Carbon can be very misleading if the soil is an alkaline pH and the carbon is present in CO3-
Answered by rofe - Wed Feb 4 21:37:25 2009

What is the maximum number of electrons that can be in the N shell of a period 4 element?
Q. I know the N shell can hold a max of 32 electrons, but what about when it is just a period 4 element? I think the outermost shell of period 4 elements is the N shell, so there must be some special rule.
Asked by John P - Thu Apr 17 15:31:27 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Each level follows the rule e=2n^2 so level 1(n=1) e=2 level 2(n=2) e=2*4=8 n=3 so e=2(9)=18 n=4 so e = 2(16) n=5 so e=2(25)=50 ...
Answered by sciteacher - Thu Apr 17 15:44:18 2008

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