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If you get it hot enough, nitrogen can be oxidized. There is plenty of fuel in that sense.

• nitrogen 6y ago
  Is the oxidation of nitrogen exothermic, and sufficiently so to sustain a chain reaction?
  • wadkar 6y ago
    Nope, it’s endothermic as sibling pointed out! <side>must resist the username checks out comment</aside>
    • nvader 6y ago
      Nice Apophasis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis
• wcoenen 6y ago
  The oxidation of nitrogen gas is endothermic though. It can't produce heat to sustain a runaway reaction.
  • wadkar 6y ago
    Bingo! You beat me to it. This trivia about Nitrogen used to be my favorite when I was studying chemistry in the school. Like there’s lot of nitrogen in the atmosphere and oxygen but they don’t “burn” because (almost all?) nitrogen oxidation is endothermic!
  • FlyingAvatar 6y ago
    Cool, I was actually wondering about that.