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NITROGEN

Nitrogens symbol is a capital N. Nitrogen at room temperature is a gas. Nitrogens

boiling point is -320.4 degrees fahrenheit, and its melting point is -346 degrees fahrenheit.
Nitrogen is a very important element in the world. Without Nitrogen we would not be able to
grow nor live. Nitrogen is in almost everything on earth.
Why Nitrogen is important
Nitrogen is the seventh most abundant element in the universe by mass. Nitrogen is
essential for growth and reproduction in animals and plants. Eighty percent of earth's atmosphere
is made of Nitrogen. Nitrogen is important because we wouldn't have 20% of the Earths
atmosphere, we also would not have any animals or plants. We wouldn't have any living
organisms.
How Nitrogen is Useful
Nitrogen is used to preserve food. It preserves food by removing the air and replacing it
with gases such as Nitrogen. Nitrogen is also used in stainless steel. When nitrogen is added to
austenitic steel(A kind of steel that has austenite as its primary phrase. This contains Chromium
and Nickel, also Molybdenum and Nitrogen.), it can simultaneously improve fatigue life,
strength, work hardening rate. Nitrogen is also in ammonia. Ammonia is toxic often found in
waste products, like sewage, and other liquid organic waste products.
When and How Nitrogen Was Discovered
Nitrogen was discovered in 1772. A scottish chemist Daniel Rutherford, was one of the
chemists that did an experiment with Nitrogen. Daniel Rutherford was in Edinburgh when he

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performed this experiment. The experiment was formed by seeing what would happen if they
took Oxygen and carbon dioxide from the air. This experiment was performed by many chemists
around the world.
Nitrogen is very important for many reasons. Nitrogen is in every living organism. It is
also used for numbers of things. Nitrogen was found in 1772 by multiple chemists. At room
temperature Nitrogen is a gas.

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