uses of nitrogen

Let us learn about uses of nitrogen

Nitrogen has several uses. 1 of these uses is preparing light bulbs. Light bulbs are almost always filled with Nitrogen. Another use is explosives. Nitrogen can be used to make 4 different explosives. 1 of these is Ammonium Nitrate (N2 H4 O3). During1947, a shipload of Ammonium Nitrate went off in the harbor of Texas City, TX. The explosion wrecked the city therefore thoroughly; it seemed that airplanes had bombed the city. The other 3 explosives made from Nitrogen are Nitrocellulose, Nitroglycerin, and Trinitrotoluene. You may know Trinitrotoluene better by the initials TNT. Hence another use for Nitrogen is that it is used to make Laughing Gas.

One field for use is to save the freshness of foods by packaging them in nitrogen. This greatly helps us to reduce the spoilage of the food, due to it getting rancid or suffering other forms of oxidative damage.

Argon gas has been used in incandescent light bulbs to preserve the tungsten filament from burning up, since argon is an inert material. At present Nitrogen is being used as an inexpensive alternative to argon.

Other fields where nitrogen is used is in dealing with liquid explosives as a safe measure, in military aircraft fuel systems to reduce the fire hazard, & in the production of electronic parts such as diodes, transistors & integrated circuits.

In our next blog we shall learn about reversible reaction I hope the above explanation was useful.Keep reading and leave your comments.