Solid nitrogen

Solid nitrogen on the plains of Sputnik Planitia on Pluto next to water ice mountains

Solid nitrogen is a number of solid forms of the element nitrogen, first observed in 1884. Solid nitrogen is mainly the subject of academic research, but low-temperature, low-pressure solid nitrogen is a substantial component of bodies in the outer Solar System and high-temperature, high-pressure solid nitrogen is a powerful explosive, with higher energy density than any other non-nuclear material.[1]

  1. ^ Eremets, M. I.; Gavriliuk, A. G.; Serebryanaya, N. R.; Trojan, I. A.; Dzivenko, D. A.; Boehler, R.; Mao, H. K.; Hemley, R. J. (2004). "Structural transformation of molecular nitrogen to a single-bonded atomic state at high pressures" (PDF). The Journal of Chemical Physics. 121 (22): 11296–300. Bibcode:2004JChPh.12111296E. doi:10.1063/1.1814074. PMID 15634085. S2CID 25122837.

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