Properties+and+Uses+of+Nitrogen

Nitrogen is cruial to liveing organisms. In nature it is an inert gas but bacteria in soil can change the inertness to feed plants. After being used (eather as fertilizer for plants or protens from plants for animals.) It can be recycled by other bacteria witch convert is back to its original state as a gas. Nitrogen is also used in making light bulbs four different kinds of explosives: Ammonion Nitrate, Nitroglycerin, Nitrocellulose, and Trinitrotoluene (TNT). In 1947 a ship carrying a cargo of Ammonion Nitrate blew up in the Texas City Harbour. The entire city was flattened.

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