Resumen de Molecular nitrogen: inert but essential

Tim Harrison, Anwar A. Khan, Beth Shallcross, Esther Shallcross, Dudley Shallcross

• Nitrogen gas dominates the Earth’s atmosphere but is largely ignored.

  Molecular nitrogen is extremely stable and so nitrogen is termed inert. What would happen if another ‘inert’ gas were the dominant species instead of molecular nitrogen? Here we show how unique nitrogen is and how important it has been to life on planet Earth.