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Why only oxygen supports combustion and not hydrogen or nitrogen?
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Hydrogen is not electronegative enough to act as a strong oxidizing agent, and the triple bond in the N2 molecule is difficult to break, making the gas largely inert.
However, the halogens, particularly fluorine and chlorine can support redox reactions similar to combustion.
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What four elements make up 96 percent of living organisms?
The following four elements make up 90 percent of the mass of living things: Oxygen - 65% Carbon - 18.5% Hydrogen - 9.5% Nitrogen - 3.2%
What gas in the air do you need to make fire?
Oxygen. It supports combustion.
What nutrient contains nitrogen carbon oxygen and hydrogen?
Protein contains nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen
What three elements are found in nitric acid?
Nitric acid is not actually only one element! It is a compound of three elements in order to give this acid. The elements are: Nitrogen, Hydrogen and Oxygen. Hence, Nitrogen Hydroxide: Nitric Acid!
What is the most abundant gas in our atmosphere oxygen hydrogen nitrogen water?
It is nitrogen, followed by oxygen.
Which gas supports combustion other than oxygen?
Hydrogen burns in Chlorine to form HCl. Thus, CHLORINE gas supports the burning of Hydrogen.
How is water different from the elements which made them?
Hydrogen gas and oxygen gas are gases at room temperature. Oxygen supports combustion and hydrogen is very combustible. Water is a liquid at room temperature and is not combustible and does not support combustion.
Can nitrogen catch on fire?
No. It would be very bad for us if they did, ad out atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and oxygen. Nitrogen will react with oxygen, but only at high temperatures, and the process actually absorbs more energy than it gives out.
What are the four elements most common in organisms?
Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen
Element that supports combustion?
. Oxygen, O.
Which gas in air supports combustion?
Oxygen.
What four elements make up 96 percent of living organisms?
The following four elements make up 90 percent of the mass of living things: Oxygen - 65% Carbon - 18.5% Hydrogen - 9.5% Nitrogen - 3.2%
What is the atomic mass of Hydrogen Nitrogen and oxygen?
hydrogen-1g nitrogen-14g oxygen-16g
What four elements make up 96 percent of the human body?
Oxygen is the most abundant element in the human body, followed by Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen. Calcium is abundant, as well.
Elements in nucleic acids?
the main elements in nucleic acid are carbon,hydrogen,oxygen,nitrogen and phosphorus. carbon,hydrogen,oxygen,nitrogen and phosporus are the main elements of nucleic acid.
What are elements in protein?
Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur.
Can hydrogen support combustion?
Hydrogen is a fuel for combustion, but cannot support it in the manner than oxygen can.
