N2O

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Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for life, but when overused in agriculture and other applications it can harm water quality or be emitted as the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, or N2O.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

Most N2O emissions from ammonia combustion are the result of disruptions to the combustion process.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023

"If the combustion process is allowed to finish, then there will be essentially no N2O emissions."

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023

Notable exceptions are carbon monoxide, CO, nitrous oxide, N2O, and nitric oxide, NO.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The formulas and names of these are as follows: N2O nitrous oxide.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William