Nitrogen

=`Element Name: Nitrogen= By: Joseph, Douglas


 * Atomic Number: 7**


 * Protons:** 7 Protons


 * Electrons:** 5 Electrons


 * Neutrons:** 7 Neutrons


 * Average Atomic Mass:**  14.0067


 * Isotopes:**

**The element nitrogen was discovered by Daniel Rutherford**[|**.**]

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 * Interesting Facts**: 
 * 1) Nitrogen is odorless, tasteless, and colorless.
 * 2) Nitrogen gas (N2) makes up 78.1% of the volume of the Earth’s air.
 * 3) Nitrogen is a.
 * 4) Nitrogen gas is relatively inert, but soil bacteria can 'fix' nitrogen into a form that plants and animals can use to make amino acids and proteins.
 * 5) The French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier named nitrogenazote, meaning without life.
 * 6) Nitrogen was sometimes referred to as 'burnt' or 'dephlogisticated' air.
 * 7) Nitrogen compounds are found in foods, fertilizers, poisons, and explosives.
 * 8) Nitrogen is responsible for the orange-red, blue-green, blue-violet, and deep violet colors of the aurora.
 * 9) One way to prepare nitrogen gas is by liquefaction and fractional distillation from the atmosphere.
 * 10) Nitrogen has a valence of 3 or 5.


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