You missed nitrates, nitrides, ammonia (NH3), Life Itself, etc., etc., etc.,
compounds
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05.
inert gas
or noble gas, any of the elements in group 0 of the periodic table. In order
of increasing atomic number they are: helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon,
and radon. They are colorless, odorless, tasteless gases and were once
believed to be entirely inert, i.e., forming no chemical compounds; however,
some compounds of these elements have been produced, i.e., fluorides of
krypton, xenon, and radon. The low chemical activity of the inert gases is
due to the fact that their outermost, or valence, electron shell is
complete, containing two electrons in the case of helium and eight in the
remaining cases. The inert gases are sometimes called the rare gases,
although argon is not rare (it makes up about 1% of the atmosphere) and
helium is commercially extracted from natural gas and the atmosphere.
All DNA bases have atomic nitrogen in them, amino acids also
have atomic nitrogen in them. By that statement what we're saying is if you
have nitrogen in its simplest form, the atomic form, it's much more
reactive and can more easily form complex prebiotic organics in space.
Nitrogen is reactive, not inert.
Select formula from below:
Fluorides
N2F2
N2F2
NF3
N2F4
Chlorides
NCl3
Bromides
NBr3
Iodides
NI3
Hydrides
none listed
Oxides
NO
NO2
N2O
N2O3
N2O4
N2O5
Sulfides
none listed
Selenides
none listed
Tellurides
none listed
Nitrides
H2NNH2
