Everything Matters | Nitrogen | Alex Pingis | Exploratorium

Quiet, nitrogen occupies some 78% of our atmosphere. Cleaving atom to atom in a triple-bonded embrace, atmospheric nitrogen keeps to itself, unreactive and of little use unless sundered by lightning, or unstitched by underground microbes busily “fixing” it to beneficial compounds that are essential to plant growth. Once absorbed or consumed, nitrogen becomes a necessary component of amino and nucleic acids, interlacing proteins, RNA, and DNA.
Join Exploratorium scientist Alex Pingis as he explores some of the aspects of Nitrogren, and specifically, Nitrous Oxide.
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[@paradox_1729]

Why isnt this channel more well known??

[@Jay_Flippen]

What! I have to wait until November 19th and December 17th to watch a new elemental Everything Matters video?!?!? Dag. I would definitely watch more videos that describe other attributes of the elements other than the videos posted that I've already reviewed on this channel. I guess the more in-depth you get with an element, the more specific the applications are, and the more complex the chemical compounds and reactions are. But I'd still probs. watch em'