Does lighting give off nitrogen?

Answer 1

No, it doesn;t. Nitrogen is always present in the air.

What lightning does is convert the nitrogen it into a form usable by plants.

Lightning doesn't give off nitrogen, it actually destroys the nitrogen in the air by combining it with other elements.

Answer 2

The main component of the nitrogen cycle starts with the element nitrogen in the air. Two nitrogen oxides are found in the air as a result of interactions with oxygen. Nitrogen will only react with oxygen in the presence of high temperatures and pressures found near lightning bolts and in combustion reactions in power plants or internal combustion engines. Nitric oxide, NO, and nitrogen dioxide, NO2, are formed under these conditions. Eventually nitrogen dioxide may react with water in rain to form nitric acid, HNO3. The nitrates thus formed may be utilized by plants as a nutrient.

Answer 3

Yes lighting does free up nitrogen in the atmosphere. The atmosphere is mainly nitrogen molecules. The lighting breaks the molecular bonds to allow free nitrogen atoms.

Plants need the freed up nitrogen

Answer 4

No ... lightning does not give off nitrogen. However, it converts atmospheric nitrogen to nitrogen oxide. This is called nitrogen fixation. The energy from lightning in thunderstorms is used in this conversion of nitrogen to nitrogen oxides. These gases dissolve in rain droplets (forming acid rain) and is then absorbed in the soil for plants to use.

Nitrogen gas is made when denitrifying bacteria convert nitrates in the soil to Nitrogen gas in the process of denitrification.

For further infomation, you could research the nitrogen cycle.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

The atmospher is approximately 80% nitrogen, N2. Lightning splits some of these causing them to combine with O2 to make a soluble nitrogen compound for plants.Lightning also splits some of the O2s and they combine with other O2s to make O3 ozone.

Answer 6

No.

Nitrogen is already 78% of the atmosphere. About 21% is oxygen and the remaining 1% is carbon dioxide and water vapor with traces of some of the noble gases.

What does happen with lightening is that it causes nitrous oxides and ozone to form. Normally oxygen and nitrogen don't combine but the enormous energy of lightening causes that non-spontaneous chemical reaction to occur.

Answer 7

i dont know if it gives off nitrogen..... but i do know that thunder is the sound of lightning boiling the moisture out of the air. pretty cool huh

Answer 8

I assume you mean lightning and I believe it gives off ozone.

Answer 9

i have always told my grandson it does. and i believe this. i tell him so he won't be scared and believe it is what makes the grass green and all the plants grow so pretty. i really think it makes him feel better about an eletrical storm.