what happens if you breathe nitrogen for a long period of time?
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Nitriogen dioxide is toxic by inhalation. Symptoms of poisoning (lung edema) tend to appear several hours after one has inhaled a low but potentially fatal dose. Also, low concentrations (4 ppm) will anesthesize the nose, thus creating a potential for overexposure.\n\nLong-term exposure to NO2 at concentrations above 40–100 µg/m³ causes adverse health effects [2]. The most important source of NO2 are internal combustion engines, which emit nitrogen oxides near people.
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Our body uses amino acids in many ways. When an amino acid is degraded (e.g. phenylalanine to acetyl CoA) ammonia (NH3) is released as a byproduct. Ammonia itself is highly toxic to the human body, however, so we incorporate it into the less toxic urea molecule. Urea has pretty much no other role other than being a nitrogenous waste, and is a component of urine.
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I'm not sure, all the answers make sense, I thought maybe the fluids and gases in our bodies kept us afloat for a while then once dead the fluids and gases escape and the body sinks until it bloats and then rises again
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If you're cleaning with bleach, and you breathe in a little bit, it's not great, but won't kill you.  But remember to get fresh air fairly often.  Take a break, go into the other room, breathe a few fresh breathes, then come back.\n\nAlso, never mix ammonia and bleach.  The fumes from that are lethal!
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it is because the air u breath and relases has carbon in it n carbon is contigeous.
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Our atmosphere has 78.084% nitrogen,20.946% Oxygen,0.934% Argon,0.033% Carbon dioxide,0.000018% Neon,0.0000052% Helium,0.0000020% Methane,0.0000014% Krypton,0.0000005%Hydrogen, 0.0000005% Nitrous Oxide,0.00000008% Xenon,0.00006%Ozone and many other gases.Out of these,the gases essential for survival are Nitrogen,Oxygen & Carbon Dioxide.Oxygen's role is known by every one.Nitrogen Provides an Inert atmosphere not only outside but also Inside our Body.If the Nitrogen-Oxygen balance were to be disturbed,we couldn't light a candle so safely(It would have created an Explosion)Regarding Carbon-dioxide,if it's level becomes even 0.066%,all plants on Earth would die!Also if it falls below0.01%.Another very Important gas is the Ozone which protects us from the Harmful Ultra-Violet radiations.So the current % is the correct one for life......
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The Amino group (NH2) breaks off the amino acid molecule by a process called deamination and forms ammonia. Toxic ammonia is rapidly converted to urea by a process called the ornithine cycle.\nUrea is only slightly toxic.
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http://www.lloydminsterheavyoil.com/nitrogen.jpg\nhttp://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/castep/MD/img43.png
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It's a sealed room with high barometric pressure.  Sometimes if divers come up too soon, they get a condition called "the bends" in which nitrogen dissolved in the bloodstream starts to come out as bubbles of gas.  (Think of how bubbles come out of soda when you lower the pressure by opening the top.)  So the divers can be put in a hyperbaric chamber, where more of the gas will stay dissolved and the pressure can be lowered gradually.
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What is nitrogen used for? \n    Nitrogen is a component of many organic molecules.  It forms an essential part of amino acids (which make up proteins) and DNA.  Nitrogen is essential for all living cells. \n\nWhat is the nitrogen cycle? \n    Nitrogen is the major component of earth's atmosphere.  It enters the food chain by means of nitrogen-fixing bacteria and algae in the soil.  This nitrogen which has been 'fixed' is now available for plants to absorb.  These types of bacteria form a symbiotic relationship with legumes--these types of plants are very useful because the nitrogen fixation enriches the soil and acts as a 'natural' fertilizer.  The nitrogen-fixing bacteria form nitrates out of the atmospheric nitrogen which can be taken up and dissolved in soil water by the roots of plants.  Then, the nitrates are incorporated by the plants to form proteins, which can then be spread through the food chain.  When organisms excrete wastes, nitrogen is released into the environment.  Also, whenever an organism dies, decomposers break down the corpse into nitrogen in the form of ammonia.  This nitrogen can then be used again by nitrifying bacteria to fix nitrogen for the plants.
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You could skip the Nitrogen Oxide and use Nitrous Oxide.   :o)
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carbon dioxide or CO2, it's basically what you breathe out
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Your body absorbs the vapour like a sponge...:D
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B. Nitrogen.  It's above 70% in normal air.
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I think you mean pneumonia...ammonia is a chemical, and a bad one at that!\n\nIt means his lungs are filling up with fluid, but not to the point or at a rate that is life threatening enough to render him ambulatory.  Meaning he can walk around while he recovers.  He'll be coughing up stuff for awhile, but eventually he'll recover...unless he stresses himself into full blown pneumonia.
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no it causes no memory loss hat so ever, if anything you will DIE immediately after large doses. And when you blow out th flame the gas incinerates and is no longer. So once you burn the gas... there is no gas left at ALL.\nIt just turns into something like carbon monoxide and other.
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like all natural things there is a resource of oxygen stored in our boby in form of water... if the body is short of oxygen the body tries to convert water into oxygen thus stop from dieing... \n\nwhen you hold your breath initially there is a shortage of air in the body you get unconscious during this period the body starts to convert some amount of water into oxygen... and waits for our body to get external air... \n\nthis is a slow process and if your body is not strong enough to resist... then you can even die immediately...