NCO2

[Cerius]

I have been trying to do some research on what happens if Nitrogen is mixed with Carbon Dioxide. I am wondering what the reaction would be. I know that NCO2 is stable, yet I cannot find out what the chemical is. I am wondering if this is toxic to breath. I am wanting to see if this could be a possible way to Terraform Mars?

[John Cuthber]

"I have been trying to do some research on what happens if Nitrogen is mixed with Carbon Dioxide."

Nothing happens: they don't react.

[Cerius]

Thank you. That just means I will have to look at this another way then.

[John Cuthber]

Incidentally, why do you think NCO2 is stable?

The only reference I can find to it has it trapped in a frozen neon matrix just a few degrees above absolute zero. Those are not easy conditions to achieve so they must have had a reason for choosing them. The simplest reason is that it reacts with anything less inert than Ne and it decomposes if its not kept very cold.

[Moontanman]

Incidentally, why do you think NCO2 is stable?

The only reference I can find to it has it trapped in a frozen neon matrix just a few degrees above absolute zero. Those are not easy conditions to achieve so they must have had a reason for choosing them. The simplest reason is that it reacts with anything less inert than Ne and it decomposes if its not kept very cold.

 

 

I have to ask, is NCO2 really a molecule? just writing chemical symbols beside each other does not a molecule make, if even a tiny amount of the chemistry i was taught has been retained by my brain...

[John Cuthber]

I guess it exists because someone has measured the IR absorption spectrum of the stuff.

What I don't believe is that it's stable.

[Cerius]

I might have been mistaken on it being stable. All the information that I could find is that it was good for beer to make it less foamy.

[mississippichem]

I guess it exists because someone has measured the IR absorption spectrum of the stuff.

What I don't believe is that it's stable.

 

Any idea what the proposed structure is? Everything I'm trying to come with on my end looks crazy.

 

I would like a link to the work as well.

[John Cuthber]

Aha! Now I think I know what you are on about.

They use a mixture of nitrogen and CO2 to froth some beers with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draught_beer#Keg_beer

it gives smaller bubbles that last longer.

 

But there's no chemical reaction between the two gases.

 

Unless, according to this

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16375522

you freeze them into a block of solid neon at 4K and zap them with a laser.