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If our body needs nitrogen and our atmosphere is MOSTLY nitrogen, how come we don’t absorb any of it when we breathe? How come we can’t get oxygen from our food, or water, but we CAN get nitrogen that way?

by /u/Snaz5 in /r/askscience

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