hydrogen in tires

[David Brady]

Pete,

If you're going to quote Wikipedia verbatim, at least credit the source.

David Brady
'02 LXi, Smoke
NC

Pete Masterson wrote:
> From Wikipedia:
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> Nitrogen is a nonmetal, with an electronegativity of 3.0. It has five
> electrons in its outer shell and is therefore trivalent in most
> compounds. The triple bond in molecular nitrogen (N2) is the
> strongest in nature. The resulting difficulty of converting (N2) into
> other compounds, and the ease (and associated high energy release) of
> converting nitrogen compounds into elemental N2, have dominated the
> role of nitrogen in both nature and human economic activities. [In
> other words, many nitrogen compounds are quite explosive, but
> elemental nitrogen is quite stable.]
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