when you go to the gas station and fill up your tires with air is it nitrogen that your pumping in your tires?

Question

like i said in my other question i'm doing a report for chemistry and someone said nitrogen is used to fill tires is it true?

Answer 1

It's not nitrogen... It's hydrogen. They called my car the "Hindenburg" after it burst into flames when I pumped in a few pounds too many way back when in Lakehurst, New Jersey... Oh, the humanity!

Answer 2

Actually, the fact that an air compressor is pumping compressed air into a bicycle tires does not means that it is chemically changing the atomical characteristics of the air surrounding us (O2). The air compressor is just putting all of the O2 molecules tight together inside the bicycle tire. Another thing to think about. Don't the clowns fill balloons with nitrogen in order for then to float in the air? Don't people breath the nitrogen inside the balloons in order to speak with a high pitch tune? If the air surrrounding us was 90% nitrogen, then we would all be speaking with a high pitch tune all the time and there would be no need for people to breath nitrogen from a balloon. When we breath we turn oxigen(O2) into carbon bioxide(CO2), then the plants breath carbon bioxide(CO2) and turn it into oxigen(O2).

Answer 3

Well actually the thing that pumps air into your tires just compresses air from the outside, which is mostly nitrogen anyway. It's compressed air. That's what i think. i'm no expert, but i don't think those things have tanks. I think they suck air from the air to compress for tires.

Answer 4

BonesofaTeacher is right - compressed air is just like the air you breathe everyday - about 90% nitrogen.

Answer 5

No its normal with some water not alot just a few drops here and there i stuck it in my mouth it was fun but no its not nitrogen

Answer 6

Its just the surrounding air being compressed. Standard atmospheric mixture.