Originally Posted by
David Gladwin
Never heard of that either ,seems in 20 years as a Boeing (training) captain I must have been living in enormous ignorance.
I.ll ask the real experts on pprune !
The best application of nitrogen (in liquid form) is to make frozen yogurt....
Of course its also used in high performance car tires for reasons other than that mentioned here for aircraft. Temp/pressure stability in car tires which holds true for aircraft as well to a degree. Also helps with corrosion of them mags. And some mag castings can be porous ( but only if made it Italy ..). Nitrogen helps for that too, being a large molecule.