Exploding Fertilizer
Atmospheric nitrogen is a diatomic molecule of just two nitrogen atoms bonded very strongly to each other. Nitrogen, in compound with other elements, is just a single nitrogen atom bonded very weakly, and thus nitrogen compounds can be very reactive. Reactions…
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