Nitorgen is used to make nitric acid, ammonia, and fertilizers along with many other things. It is a colorless, odorless, gas. It uses about 4/5 of atmospheres volume.
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WHERE IS NITROGEN USED AND FOUND? ... It is also possible to buy large containers of liquid nitrogen which can be used to freeze materials like food. This is how most of the frozen foods in a grocery store are used. Nitrogen is also used in explosives.
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Elements and Compounds question: What is nitrogen used for? One of the largest uses of nitrogen gas is for the production of ammonia: 3H2 N2 ---> 2NH3 ...
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Nitrogen gas has a number of uses. Since it is relatively inert, it is often used as a preservative atmosphere for delicate historical objects. It can also be used to manufacture ammonia, by combining it with hydrogen. Ammonia has many indu...
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Liquid nitrogen is an inexpensive cryogenic liquid used for refrigeration, preservation of biological samples and for low temperature scientific experimentation. Jefferson Lab's Frostbite Theater features videos of many basic liquid nitrogen experiments, such as this one:
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It is very important for Nitrogen to be on the earth, without it it would be hard to make rocket fuel and it is also used as an explosive to demolish structures when it is made into a compound.
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Nitrogen is used as a refrigerant both for the immersion freezing of food products and for transportation of foods. Liquid nitrogen is also used in missile work as a purge for components, insulators for space chambers, etc., and by the oil industry to build up great pressures in wells to force crude oil upward.
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Brief description: nitrogen is a Group 15 element. Nitrogen makes up about 78% of the atmosphere by volume but the atmosphere of Mars contains less than 3% nitrogen. The element seemed so inert that Lavoisier named it azote, meaning "without life". ... Cartoon by Nick D Kim (nearingzero.net, used by permission).
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For ten months, crews have been filling airliner oxygen systems from a nitrogen cart that’s supposed to be used to fill tires. The mistake went unnoticed until a couple of weeks ago when an observant aircraft engineer spotted service workers using the cart.
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