Made by lightning! Nitrogen meets Oxygen
Air is full of nitrogen and oxygen, but they almost never react. Only the huge heat of a lightning bolt or a car engine joins them into nitric oxide.
The result
- What it makes
- Nitric oxide
- Equation
- N₂ + O₂ → 2NO
- When it happens
- Only in lightning or a hot car engine
Fun fact from Fizzy: Lightning makes nitrogen compounds that fall with the rain and help plants grow!