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Extraterrestrial sources of nitrogen?

Writing sci fi. Space habitats. Where do we get the nitrogen that we need to live from if not the earth (I've don't remember other atmospheres having nitrogen in them).

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    Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere that is almost exclusively nitrogen.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    the elements heavier than H and He are "cooked " in the core of ancient stars, which then exploded and blasted the new elements into space where they formed other stars and planets.

    current theory

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