Is it possible to create a temperature hot enough to combust all of earths oxygen with atmospheric nitrogen?

Question

No, What is there to take over anyways if it would destroy it.

Can you please try to use science to explain it?

Supermatter yes there is plenty of inorganic substances that can combust with oxygen. Theres hydrogen, iron filings , magnesium ribbon, carbon, sulfur, potassium nitrate, and tons more! You must be combusting something real good in your pipe to think inorganic matterials cant combust. But thanks anyways.

Good answer ag, but since stoiciametricaly oxygen would be a limitin reactant in a mixture of mostly nitrogen how come the entire atmospher does not explode when lightning happens?

Answer 1

Yes, it happens all the time when lightning strikes, the main source of Nitrogen Oxides.

Answer 2

for this to happen you need a temperature around 3000 degrees Celsius.(like the lightning) so anything hot enough to do it will be plasma. so I think you need a big nuclear explosion big enough to cover all the atmospheree, but it'll destroy the earth to so there will be no atmospher.

Answer 3

Combustion only occurs with organic compounds ie. things with carbon. I suppose O2 and N2 can react together to form NO2 or N2O, but since N2 and O2 are so stable already, the temperature at which this happens will be so high that everything on Earth will die first, so no, you cannot attain and sustain such a temperature.

Answer 4

I would tell you, but I can't let that kind of technology get into the hands of terrorists. I think you can be trusted not to build a superbomb with it, but I can't guarentee that for everyone else.

Answer 5

oxidation of N2 to form nytrogen oxide is endothermic(change inH=+90.4Kj/mol) this reaction can't be called combusting

Answer 6

I would imagine that much heat would blow the atmosphere out into space.

Answer 7

Are you trying to take over the world or something?

Answer 8

in theory yes. thank God