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Why nitrogen is more in air?

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Nitrogen is more in the air because it is least reactive and nitrogen is generated and maintained in this natural equilibrium by plants and surface soil bacteria, who convert it to ammonium, nitrites, and nitrates before releasing it as free nitrogen back into the atmosphere.

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