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No. Nitrogen is not flammable.
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Can nitrogen catch on fire?
No. It would be very bad for us if they did, ad out atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and oxygen. Nitrogen will react with oxygen, but only at high temperatures, and the process actually absorbs more energy than it gives out.
What are the two main gases?
Hydrogen and Nitrogen. Or oxygen and carbon dioxide, or carbon monoxide.
What do Nitrogen and oxygen form?
Nitrogen oxide can refer to a binary compound of oxygen and nitrogen, or a mixture of such compounds.
Chemical formula of nitrogen monoxide?
The chemical formula for nitrogen monoxide is NO. It consists of one nitrogen and one oxygen atom per molecule of nitrogen monoxide.
Nitrogen monoxide and oxygen are called?
Nitrogen monoxide gas and oxygen gas
Can nitrogen catch on fire?
No. It would be very bad for us if they did, ad out atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and oxygen. Nitrogen will react with oxygen, but only at high temperatures, and the process actually absorbs more energy than it gives out.
Why does zinc burn up fast?
It reacts with oxygen and nitrogen well.
What can burn in an oxygen free atmosphere?
Many things. Titanium burns well in both oxygen and nitrogen.
What happens when you burn nitrogen?
Nitrogen is not flammable. Combining it with oxygen actually absorbs energy. Nitrogen forms various oxides including nitrous oxide (N2O), nitric oxide (NO), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
Does ammonia burn in oxygen?
Yes ammonia does burn in oxygen. On combustion it forms Nitrogen oxide and water. Reaction involved is-4NH(3) + 5O(2) ---> 4NO + 6H(2)O.
If air contained oxygen instead of nitrogen?
If that were so then fires would burn much more intensely.
How do you identify oxygen gas?
By chemical analysis; also a candle burn in oxygen (or in a gas containing oxygen) but not in nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide.
How will burning be affected if nitrogenin the air to act as a diluents for oxygen?
The air is already close to 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon and about 0.04% carbon dioxide, therefore oxygen in the air is already diluted with nitrogen. This means that things don't burn nearly as fast as they would if the air were 100% oxygen, and things would burn more slowly if the air had more nitrogen, argon or carbon dioxide in it. Nitrogen doesn't help anything burn, but it will burn itself if there is oxygen present and the temperature is over about 900 deg. F. That is why automobile and jet airplane exhausts contain some nitrogen oxides. Neither argon or carbon dioxide will burn not matter how high the temperature is. This may seem strange at first, but oxygen is not flammable. Oxygen itself doesn't burn, but it is necessary for other things, called fuels, to burn. Anything that burns is called a fuel. To cause a fire, you need a fuel, and oxidant, and a source of ignition, like a spark or a flame or something very hot. Oxygen isn't the only thing that will cause things to burn. Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is very effective at making things burn, as does fluorine or chlorine gas.
What are the two main gases?
Hydrogen and Nitrogen. Or oxygen and carbon dioxide, or carbon monoxide.
How you use nitrogen gas to control fire in mine?
A fire needs oxygen to burn. Air contains oxygen. So passing in nitrogen stops incoming air refuelling the fire. Have to be careful if there are trapped people who of course need to take in oxygen as they breathe.
Is it possible to prove that fire needs oxygen and not nitrogen?
Yes. In a lab, light two pieces of wood on fire. Close one in a chamber that is fed pure oxygen and another in a chamber that is fed pure nitrogen. The fire that is fed pure oxygen will burn hotter and brighter. The one that is fed nitrogen will go out.
What would happen to something burning if there was only oxygen and no nitrogen?
Anything that burns in the natural atmosphere, which is only about one fifth oxygen, would burn much faster in pure oxygen.
