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   From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   "Robert Clark"  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >  It's about combustion temperature. Get the reaction hot enough (above   
   >2500F or so to reliably burn all the fuel you can cram into the combustion   
   >volume with all the available oxidizer in the air, and the nitrogen burns   
   >too, except "burn" doesn't necessarily mean "oxidize".   
   >   
   >Look up "NOx emissions".   
   >   
      
   Uh, nitrogen to nitrogen oxides is kind of within the definition of   
   'oxidize'.   
      
   >   
   >  Mark L. Fergerson   
      
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