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  2. Reactive nitrogen - Wikipedia

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    Reactive nitrogen ("Nr"), also known as fixed nitrogen [1], refers to all forms of nitrogen present in the environment except for molecular nitrogen (N 2 ). [ 2 ] While nitrogen is an essential element for life on Earth, molecular nitrogen is comparatively unreactive, and must be converted to other chemical forms via nitrogen fixation before it ...

  3. Reactive nitrogen species - Wikipedia

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    Reactive nitrogen species act together with reactive oxygen species (ROS) to damage cells, causing nitrosative stress. Therefore, these two species are often collectively referred to as ROS/RNS. Reactive nitrogen species are also continuously produced in plants as by-products of aerobic metabolism or in response to stress. [3]

  4. Nitrogen cycle - Wikipedia

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    Generation of Nr, reactive nitrogen, has increased over 10 fold in the past century due to global industrialisation. [2] [47] This form of nitrogen follows a cascade through the biosphere via a variety of mechanisms, and is accumulating as the rate of its generation is greater than the rate of denitrification. [48] Nitrous oxide (N

  5. Nitrogen - Wikipedia

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    Nitrogen gas is an industrial gas produced by the fractional distillation of liquid air, or by mechanical means using gaseous air (pressurised reverse osmosis membrane or pressure swing adsorption). Nitrogen gas generators using membranes or pressure swing adsorption (PSA) are typically more cost and energy efficient than bulk-delivered ...

  6. Chemically inert - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, nitrogen gas does react with the alkali metal lithium to form compound lithium nitride (Li 3 N), even under ordinary conditions. Under high pressures and temperatures and with the right catalysts, nitrogen becomes more reactive; the Haber process uses such conditions to produce ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen. [3]

  7. Respiratory burst - Wikipedia

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    Generation of reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species in the phagolysosome, implicated in respiratory burst. There are 3 main pathways for the generation of reactive oxygen species or reactive nitrogen species (RNS) in effector cells: [3] Superoxide dismutase (or alternatively, myeloperoxidase) generates hydrogen peroxide from superoxide.

  8. Nitrotyrosine - Wikipedia

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    Nitrotyrosine is a product of tyrosine nitration mediated by reactive nitrogen species such as peroxynitrite anion and nitrogen dioxide. Nitrotyrosine is identified as an indicator or marker of cell damage, inflammation as well as NO (nitric oxide) production. Nitrotyrosine is formed in the presence of the active metabolite NO.

  9. Pnictogen - Wikipedia

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    Nitrogen trifluoride is the only stable nitrogen trihalide, with nitrogen trichloride, nitrogen tribromide, and nitrogen triiodide being explosive—nitrogen triiodide being so shock-sensitive that the touch of a feather detonates it (the last three actually feature nitrogen in the −3 oxidation state).