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Where do the snakes winter?

Thousands of American prairie rattlesnakes climb into the caves and spend the cold season there. These poisonous creatures reach two meters in length and live in the warm climate of the southern United States and Mexico. Snakes of the middle belt hibernate, hiding in secluded places and gathering in large groups, and in one winter hut you can find snakes of different types, both poisonous and non-poisonous.

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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What is nitrogen?

All living beings need nitrogen, because it plays an important role in the body of plants, humans and animals. Nitrogen is part of the proteins that are the building material for the human body. Without these substances, no one can grow, heal wounds, and replace dying tissue. The air we breathe contains 78 percent nitrogen, and there are about 12 tons of nitrogen for every square kilometer of the Earth's surface.

Nitrogen is a colorless, tasteless, or odorless gas. It is only slightly soluble in water. At very low temperature or high pressure, it turns into a liquid. Under normal atmospheric pressure, nitrogen becomes liquid at -210 °C. It would seem that with the presence of such an amount of nitrogen in the air, living beings should not have a problem with obtaining it.

However, in reality, in nature, only plants from the legume family are able to absorb nitrogen from the air. All other living organisms, including humans, cannot absorb pure nitrogen. To get the necessary nitrogen, people eat protein foods made from certain types of plants or herbivores. When we breathe, we inhale the nitrogen contained in the air. But nitrogen, unlike oxygen, is not absorbed by our lungs at all, and we simply exhale it back.

However, the presence of nitrogen in the atmosphere helps us not to absorb too much oxygen. An excess of the latter is no less dangerous than its deficiency. As for other living beings, they also receive nitrogen in the form of compounds with other elements: plants - from the soil, animals - from plants or from other animals.

Nitrogen interacts with other elements with great difficulty. For example, it reacts with oxygen in nature only during lightning flashes during thunderstorms, which create exceptionally high temperatures.

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