{"id":904,"date":"2021-02-06T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T16:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godshipchurch.com\/?page_id=904"},"modified":"2021-03-20T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T13:48:12","slug":"nitrogen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/godshipchurch.com\/?page_id=904","title":{"rendered":"Nitrogen (7)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<ol type=\"1\"><li>Nitrogen gas (N<span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em;\">2<\/span>) is the largest constituent of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere (78.082%&nbsp; by volume of dry air, 75.3% by weight in dry air).<\/li><li>There exist uncommon nitrogen minerals, such as:<\/li><li>Saltpeter (Potassium Nitrate)<\/li><li>Chile Salt-Peter (Sodium Nitrate)<\/li><li>Sal Ammoniac (Ammonium Chloride)<\/li><li>Nitrogen is present in all known living organisms, in proteins, nucleic acids, and other molecules.<\/li><li>It is a large component of animal waste.<\/li><li>It is a transparent, odorless diatomic gas.<\/li><li>Many industrially important compounds, such as ammonia, nitric acid, organic nitrates (propellants and explosives), and cyanides, contain nitrogen.<\/li><li>Nitrogen is a constituent of molecules in every major pharmacological drug class, including antibiotics.<\/li><li>At atmospheric pressure, molecular nitrogen condenses (liquefies) at 77K (-195.79\u00b0C) and freezes at 63K (-210.01\u00b0C), and turns to gas at -190\u00b0C.<\/li><li>Liquid nitrogen, a fluid resembling water in appearance, but with 80.8% of the density is a common cryogen. It boils at -195.80\u00b0C.<\/li><li>Molecular Nitrogen (N<span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em;\">2<\/span>-14) \u2013 is largely transparent to infrared and visible radiation because it is a mononuclear molecule and, thus, has no dipole moment to couple to electromagnetic radiation at these wavelengths.<\/li><li>Nitrogen gas also exhibits scintillation.<\/li><li>In general, nitrogen is unreactive at standard temperature and pressure. N<span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; bottom: -0.25em;\">2<\/span>&nbsp;reacts spontaneously with few reagents, being resilient to acids and bases as well as oxidants and most reductants.<\/li><li>When nitrogen reacts spontaneously with a reagent, the net transformation is often called nitrogen fixation.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-904","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshipchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshipchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshipchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshipchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshipchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/godshipchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/godshipchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/904\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshipchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}