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Re: [TR] Nitrogen in Tires

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Subject: Re: [TR] Nitrogen in Tires
From: Dave1massey@cs.com
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 08:53:28 EDT
In a message dated 9/2/2008 7:48:52 AM Central Daylight Time, 
mark.jones@exxonmobil.com writes: 
> and the nitrogen molecule is just a bit bigger than an
> oxygen molecule.

Why do you say that?  The molecular weight of nitrogen is 14 whereas oxygen 
is 16.  Since oxygen has a larger nuculas (the root word for "nukular") and 
more electrons it sounds logical that nitrogen is actually larger.

Besides don't they both follow the ideal gas law?

Dave   
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