Air Liquide is a leading supplier of compressed nitrogen gas, liquid nitrogen, and on-site production of nitrogen in a range of purities and concentrations.
In laboratories, ALPHAGAZ™ 1 and ALPHAGAZ™ 1000 nitrogen provides 99.999% purity. If your analytical and laboratory applications require ultra-high-purity nitrogen, ALPHAGAZ™ 2 99.9995% pure nitrogen is ideal. Nitrogen is also available as a component in many CALGAZ™ brand gas mixtures for industrial hygiene and safety.
Gas
UN #
Gas Volume*
Gas per litre of Liquid
DG CLASS
Nitrogen
UN1066
0.844 m³
0.682 m³
2.2
* in Standard conditions, 15 °C and 1 atm (101.325 kPa)
Nitrogen was discovered in 1772 by Daniel Rutherford who called it "noxious air" or "fixed air".
Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier isolated it in 1786.
The name nitrogen comes from Latin "nitrogenium", where "nitrum" (from Greek nitron) means "saltpetre", and "genes" means "forming".
Nitrogen is an inert gas with many industrial applications. It is liquefied by cooling at -320.8 °F (-196 °C/77.15 K).
It is mainly found in the atmosphere, where it accounts for 78 % by volume of the air we breath. But nitrogen is also found in the Earth's crust (to a limited extent: in the form of nitrates, etc.), in organic form (in the living or dead plants and organisms), in mineral form (ammonia), thus contributing to soil fertility. In gaseous form, nitrogen is a neutral and colorless gas.
Discover more about nitrogen's properties, volumes, applications, safety & compatability and much more with Air Liquide's Gas Encyclopedia.
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