Tony V wrote:
Steve Leonard wrote:
And since Nitrogen is an inert gas, meaning it doesn't
support combustion,


At the risk if being pedantic, that is not what inert gas means and
nitrogen is far from being inert. An inert gas is one that is
(essentially) chemically non-reactive like helium, argon, etc.
Nitrogen is easily reactive with NO2 possibly being the best known
nitrogen compound.
That was what I thought, too, until I did a little research. According
to Wikipedia and the dictionary I consulted, Nitrogen is inert, as the
N-N bond in N2 is very strong. It is not a noble gas like helium, of
course. I think it is an error to say nitrogen (N2) is easily reactive.
NO2 is a strong oxidizer because the N-O bond is weak, but NO2 isn't N2.

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