My element : Nitrogen Nitrogen(N) Group 5 period 2 Atomic number 7 atomic mass 14.007 Two isotopes : N-14 (99.634%),N-150.

366% N-13 half life 10 minute N-16 made from O-16 n-p reaction(notron mire too poroton miad biroon) 7.1 seconds Ionization N31 pm = 1 x 10-12 metre (meter) N(56 pm)>Ne(38) Nitrogen has many uses. One of these uses is making light bulbs. Light bulbs are almost always filled with Nitrogen. Another use is explosives. Nitrogen can be used to make four different explosives. One of these is Ammonium Nitrate (N2 H4 O3). In 1947, a shipload of Ammonium Nitrate went off in the harbor of Texas City, TX. The explosion wrecked the city so thoroughly, it seemed that airplanes had bombed the city. The other three explosives made from Nitrogen are

Nitroglycerin, Nitrocellulose, and Trinitrotoluene. You probably know Trinitrotoluene better by the initials TNT. Yet another use for Nitrogen is that it is used to make Laughing Gas.

Nitrogen is used to preserve packaged foods by stopping the oxidation of food which causes it to go off. Light bulbs may contain nitrogen as a cheaper alternative to argon. Nitrogen gas is often used on top of liquid explosive to keep them from exploding! Nitrogen is used to produce many electrical parts such as transistors, diodes and integrated circuits. When dried and pressurized, nitrogen gas is used as a dielectric gas for high voltage equipment. Used to manufacture stainless steel. Used to reduce the fire hazard in military aircraft fuel systems. Nitrogen gas is used to fill the tires of aircraft and automobiles (cars). However, commercially sold cars just use normal air. Nitrogen tanks are gradually replacing carbon dioxide tanks as the power source of paintball guns. It can also be used as an alternative to carbon dioxide in pressurizing beer. Nitrogen gas makes smaller bubbles so the beer is smoother. Liquid nitrogen is used to preserve (called cryopreservation because of the low temperature) of blood, sperm and egg and other biological samples. It is

also used to cool X-ray detectors and central processing units in computers when they are hot. Nitrogen is a component of nearly every pharmacological drug. Laughing gas (nitrous oxide) can be used as an anesthetic. History Nitrogen is formally considered to have been discovered by Daniel Rutherford in 1772, who called it noxious air or fixed air.[2] The fact that there was an element of air that does not support combustion was clear to Rutherford. Nitrogen was also studied at about the same time by Carl Wilhelm Scheele,Henry Cavendish, and Joseph Priestley, who referred to it as burnt air or phlogisticated air. Nitrogen gas was inert enough that Antoine Lavoisier referred to it as "mephitic air" or azote, from the Greek word (azotos) meaning "lifeless".[3] In it, animals died and flames were extinguished. Lavoisier's name for nitrogen is used in many languages (French, Polish, Russian, etc.) and still remains in English in the common names of many compounds, such as hydrazine and compounds of the azide ion. The English word nitrogen (1794) entered the language [4] from the French nitrogne, coined in 1790 by French chemist Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756 1832), from "nitre" + Fr. gne "producing" (from Gk. means "forming" or "giving birth to."). The gas had been found in nitric acid. Chaptal's meaning was that nitrogen gas is the essential part of nitric acid, in turn formed from saltpetre (potassium nitrate), then

known as nitre. This word in the more ancient world originally described sodium salts that did not contain nitrate, and is a cognate of natron. Nitrogen compounds were well known during the Middle Ages. Alchemists knew nitric acid as aqua fortis (strong water). The mixture of nitric andhydrochloric acids was known as aqua regia (royal water), celebrated for its ability to dissolve gold (the king of metals). The earliest military, industrial, and agricultural applications of nitrogen compounds used saltpetre (sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate), most notably in gunpowder, and later as fertilizer. In 1910, Lord Rayleigh discovered that an electrical discharge in nitrogen gas produced "active nitrogen", an allotrope considered to be monatomic. The "whirling cloud of brilliant yellow light" produced by his apparatus reacted with quicksilver to produce explosive mercury nitride.[5] Nitrogen fixation is the natural process, either biological or abiotic, by which nitrogen (N2) in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia (NH3).[1] This process is essential for life because fixed nitrogen is required to biosynthesize the basic building blocks of life, e.g., nucleotides for DNA and RNA and amino acids for proteins. Nitrogen fixation also refers to other biological conversions of nitrogen, such as its conversion to nitrogen dioxide.

Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) occurs when atmospheric nitrogen is converted to ammonia by an enzyme called nitrogenase.[1] The reaction for BNF is: + N2 + 8 H + 8 e 2 NH3 + H2 1. It is 78% of the air you breathe. 2. Coming up too fast from deep sea diving gives the "bends" which is nitrogen bubbles in your blood. 3. It is colorless, ordorless, tasteless. 4. Can use it in liquid form to create supercondcutors. 5. Can be used to pressurize beer kegs, which gives the dispensed beer smoother taste and headier body. 6. When inhaled at high pressures (more than about 3 atmospheres) nitrogen begins to act as an anesthetic.