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So in this video, we're going to talk about question 8 from chapter 20, which says, what is nitrogen fixation? give some examples of nitrogen fixation.
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So the usual form of nitrogen is diatomic.
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It's gaseous in two.
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And the structure of that molecule is two nitrogen atoms triple bonded to each other.
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And that triple bond is very, very strong.
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In fact, the bond association energy for that bond is 941 kilojoules per mole.
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So the fact that our diatomic nitrogen contains this extremely strong bond means that it's more stable than other nitrogen -containing molecules.
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So nitrogen is not likely to react to form other nitrogen -containing molecules from n2.
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Into is what we call inert or non -reactive.
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So nitrogen fixation is this process of transforming nitrogen from the inert into the, the inert gaseous diatomic form of nitrogen to more useful forms of nitrogen to other nitrogen containing molecules...