Nitrogen Discharged from the Earth’s Interior Regions

Mikio Fukuhara

1Research Institute for Electromagnetic Materials, Sendai, Japan 2Fracture and Reliability Research Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan 3Green Device Laboratory, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2014.52012                

Abstract

The abundant nitrogen in the Earth’s atmosphere can be interpreted as the result of endothermic nuclear transmutation of carbon and oxygen atom pairs in (Ca, D) CO₃ or CaCO₃ aragonite lattice of Earth’s crust from the Archean era to the present time, by physical catalytic help of excited electrons e* generated by stick sliding due to plate tectonics and geoneutrinos ν by the radioactive decay of elements such as uranium and thorium in Earth’s mantle: through a nuclear attraction effect that is due to deuteron catalysis of nitrogen formation. The relationship between the critical temperature T and the critical pressure P for the nuclear transmutation is expressed as 7253 × e^-0.014P, and the formation of nitrogen in the mantle is possible at temperatures ≥ 2510 K and pressure ≥ 58 GPa.

Keywords

Nitrogen; Earth; Nuclear Transmutation; Calcium Carbonate; Geoneutrinos; Excited Electrons; Tectonics

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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