ErikSedell
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What is it about nitrogen?
Hi,
sorry if this has been covered multiple times before, please direct me to older threads in this case.
What is the fundamental reason that nitrogen rich compounds, often organic, are candidates for energetic materials? Seems like nitrates,
nitro-compounds, azides, azoles, amines etc. are very dominant among modern energetics.
//Erik
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Sulaiman
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the triple bond of N2 is very strong
a lot of energy is required to split an N2 bond
a lot of energy is released when an N2 bond is formed
CAUTION : Hobby Chemist, not Professional or even Amateur
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I would say, that, in addition to the energy released by the formation of elemental nitrogen, most energetic compounds also have enough oxygen to
combine with the carbon skeleton without needing atmospheric oxygen. The combination forms carbon dioxide (and sometimes also carbon monoxide), two
gases whose bonds are also very tight (in fact, the CO bond in CO is even tighter than the triple N bond in diatomic nitrogen. It is, according to
Wikipedia, the strongest chemical bond known).
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ErikSedell
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thank you for the nice and simple answers.
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