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Do you think pure nitrogen would work in this situation?
by moistbar 6y ago
Do you think pure nitrogen would work in this situation?
- scythe 6y agoYou'd need tons. It's plausible but I don't think it's practical. Also, magnesium and titanium can burn in pure nitrogen, so it's not a panacea.
- pmiller2 6y agoProbably not. Nitrogen is roughly the same density as air. It would just get dispersed into the atmosphere before it could do much, unless you had insane amounts of it.
- jseutter 6y agoNitrogen wouldn't work in this situation. In fact nitrogen and aluminum will burn, forming AlN. Normally this doesn't happen because of Aluminum readily forms a "rust" layer in the presence of oxygen, and there isn't enough heat. Molten aluminum in a pure nitrogen environment wouldn't have that layer, and there likely would be enough heat.