“ Nitrogen is an inert gas… “
WRONG ——-
Nitrogen is NOT inert.
Nitrogen is a very active element.
It is an atom in the molecules of most explosives.
It was poorly worded; N2 is relatively inert. It’s inert to be used in fire suppression.
Nitrogen in the air has triple bond with itself . As such it takes a lot of energy to break it apart. This is why it ends up in explosives so often. The energy it took to make other compounds is released when Nitrogen returns to its original triple bond . The German Chemist who figured out how to turn Nitrogen in the air into ammonia probably saved millions of lives because of the artificial fertilizer this helped create.