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Anything that burns in the natural atmosphere, which is only about one fifth oxygen, would burn much faster in pure oxygen.
You would expect to find nitrogen and oxygen as molecules in the atmosphere, and argon as individual atoms.
Ferrous metals react with oxygen in the atmosphere, forming rust.
That's simply the way earth's atmosphere evolved. And fortunate for us - if the earths atmosphere was 100% oxygen, the planet would have burst into flames long ago! Earth's atmosphere is 79% Nitrogen.
The atomosphere would be explosive otherwise and the planet uninhabitable. Nitrogen acts as nature's diluent.
If it is only the dust you are worried about then a particulate respirator will provide protection, i.e. a N95 up to a P100. That is if there is enough oxygen in the area that you can use an air purifying respirator. If not then you would need to use supplied air. Supplied air is often used during the fumigation process where a cartridge respirator may not provide adequat protection.
Earths atmosphere dose have oxygen in it, without it we would all be dead we require oxygen to breathe.
No, because the atmosphere keeps in all the oxygen. Without the atmosphere the oxygen would escape.
Without its oxygen content the Earth's atmosphere would be composed almost entirely of nitrogen and would be chemically inert; oxygen causes the atmosphere to be chemically active (and breathable by humans).
Nitrogen and Oxygen would be 2 of the gases in the atmosphere.
nitrogen, oxygen, and argon
If the atmosphere had always been pure oxygen, life as we know it would never have developed. If the atmosphere suddenly became pure oxygen, wild fires would rage throughout the world, and most plants and animals would die in a short time.
there would be no oxygen in the atmosphere and we would suffocate
Without nitrogen in the atmosphere, we would be breathing in nearly pure oxygen, which would be fatal.
the atmosphere is important because without the atmosphere the oxygen would escape from our atmosphere into space and without the atmosphere we would all dye because there would be nothing to protect us from the suns heat
The atmosphere contains oxygen that we need to breathe. Without the atmosphere there would be no oxygen to breathe. Also without an atmosphere there would be the vacuum of space and life cannot survive in a vacuum. Just picture living in suits like the astronauts wear.
There was no oxygen in the beginning. Plant life developed and released oxygen gas into the atmosphere over a long period of time.If that had never happened, there would not be much if any free oxygen in the atmosphere and aminal life as we know it would never have developed.