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To: RightWhale
Titan's atmoshpere is over 9/10 nitrogen, with the remaining mostly methane and argon, in decreasing order.

Is diatomic nitrogen a dipole?

73 posted on 01/03/2004 1:54:11 PM PST by inquest (The only problem with partisanship is that it leads to bipartisanship)
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To: inquest
Is diatomic nitrogen a dipole?

No. A dipole would be an H20 molecule, for example, with some + on one end and some - on the other. Even in liquid form where the molecule probably isn't so simple, water responds to magnetism. N2 would have a balanced charge.

This gets into the theory of how magnetism can arise from a material with no net charge. What is the cause of magnetism? a typical question from the realm of science.

77 posted on 01/03/2004 5:45:44 PM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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