What is one use of nitrogen?

Answer 1

Laboratory Use of Nitrogen

In any analytical laboratory, you can find large cylindrical Nitrogen tanks. Why? Because when Nitrogen gas is very clean (where Nitrogen tanks don't have anything gaseous water droplets for example) Nitrogen gas can be used to "drive off" or push out other gases from technical instruments or instrument tubings or even to quickly evaporate liquid alcohols, just used to dry lab beakers and test tubes that had liquid water in them. Nitrogen is even used to make sure "outside air" does not get into sensitive electronics in very expensive equipment. When Nitrogen is introduced gently into these "computer chip saturated" guts in those sensitive equipment, the outside air (that is moist and dirty) cant get in!

If you want some simple uses, here they are.

Nitrogen is used in light bulbs, explosives, and laughing gas. Nitrogen is used every where. We need it to make our bodies strong. You can find nitrogen ( you can't see it ... it's a gas ) in proteins. Like fish, meat, cereal, and vegetables. Air is 78% nitrogen. Plants absorb nitrogen from the soil.

Nitrogen is most well known for being used as fertilizer on farms.

Answer 2

Nitrogen is commonly used in the production of ammonia, which is essential for manufacturing fertilizers and various other chemicals. Nitrogen is also used in the food packaging industry to create a modified atmosphere that helps extend the shelf life of perishable foods.

Answer 3

i dnt no

could be used i light bulbs

ignore the other two and KRYPTON and HELIUM are used in light bulbs and liquid nitrogen is used as a refrigerant (sp?) and.....i only know that hehe

Answer 4

• The main use of Nitrogen by man is to make fertilizers.

• It is also used to make nitrous oxide (laughing gas), an anesthetic agent often used in the dentist office and other health care settings.

• It can be used to make plastics, explosives, rocket fuel, and ammonia.

• It is used in the manufacture of light bulbs, light bulbs are almost always filled with Nitrogen.

• Liquid nitrogen is extremely cold and can be used to cool things, or to instantly freeze them in scientific experiments and other uses that require very low freezing temperatures like freeze drying.

• 78.1% of the air one breathes is nitrogen.

• Nitrogen can be used in the processing of iron and steel, for example, a blanket of nitrogen placed above the metals prevents their reacting with oxygen.

• Biochemically, nitrogen is used to construct proteins.

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Nitrogen has two very large areas of use:

Nitrogen is the basis for most explosives. Trinitrotoluene (TNT) is a toluene molecule with three NO2 groups attached. Nitroglycerin is a glycerin molecule with three NO2 groups attached. Dynamite is nitroglycerin absorbed by wood pulp. Plastic explosives are mainly rings with three NO2 groups. PETN, a very powerful explosive has four (tetra) NO2 groups.

Nitrogen's other major use is life. Everything that grows needs nitrogen. It must be supplied to crops by some manner, such as fertilization, and to animals and people by their food. It is a component of amino acids, thus of proteins, of RNA and of DNA.

Nitrogen is a component of air: 80% nitrogen, 20 % oxygen, a little CO2, some water vapor, and other assorted gases.

Answer 5

-Nitrogen is an ingredient in laughing gas.

-Nitrogen is a key factor in explosives.

-Nitrogen is 78% of the air we breathe.

-Nitrogen is used to create a light bulb

Answer 6

Nitrogen is used in fertilizers and as an inert blanket in storage and in welding and cutting, among other things.

Answer 7

it is in light bulbs and explosives and laughing gas.

Answer 8

No important uses

Answer 9

To make fertilizer.

Answer 10

1.Used to manufacture ammonia.

2.liquid nitrogen used in biological research as super coolant for storage of biological tissues.

3.It is used for storing and processing reactive substances.

4.It is used in filling incandescent bulbs.