This causes nitrous oxide (NO2) to be released in the atmosphere, a greenhouse gas 310 times more powerful than CO2. ... N2(g)      NO(g)  NO2 (g)  HNO3(g)  NH4+(aq) + NO3-(aq)  amino acids(plants) Non-biological process NH3 Oxides of nitrogen can provide a source of soluble fertilizer to plant life. ...

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NITROGEN A physician named Daniel Rutherford discovered nitrogen in Scotland in 1772. It was studied by other chemists around the same time but they called it air without oxygen or it was also known as "burnt or dephlogisticated air."" French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier recognized nitr...

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