N2O

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Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for life, but when overused in agriculture and other applications it can harm water quality or be emitted as the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, or N2O.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

"If the combustion process is allowed to finish, then there will be essentially no N2O emissions."

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023

The scientists carried out their research in a mature plantation in Jambi, Indonesia, with the aim of quantifying N2O emissions in oil palm and assessing environmental and meteorological drivers of N2O emissions over different timescales.

From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023

Of particular interest are the oxidations of ammonium ion by nitrite ion, to yield pure nitrogen and by nitrate ion to yield nitrous oxide, N2O.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Note that NO is half N, while N2O is two-thirds N, and account for the difference in supporting combustion.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips