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Uses: Nitrogen is used to displace oxygen- and moisture-containing air in packaging material to extend the shelf-lives of the contents.
Aerial oxidation, hydrolysis, and other chemical reactions which degrade the products are retarded or prevented entirely. Used in beer to produce smaller bubbles and smoothness.
However, should there be an oxygen-deficient environment caused by release of a large quantity of Nitrogen, especially in a confined space, a person may experience symptoms such as headache, ringing in the ears, dizziness, drowsiness, unconsciousness, nausea, vomiting and depression of all the senses.
Being confined to an oxygen-deficient environment for a prolonged period of time can even prove fatal.
Description: Elemental Nitrogen is a colourless, odourless, tasteless and mostly inert diatomic gas at standard conditions, constituting 78.08% by volume of Earth's atmosphere.
Many industrially important compounds, such as ammonia, nitric acid, organic nitrates (propellants and explosives), and cyanides, contain nitrogen.
BULKING AGENT/FLAVOUR ENHANCER/ANTI FOAM
GLAZING AGENT/BREAD ENHANCER/PROPELLANT
FOAMING AGENT/SOLVENT/HUMECTANT