????Is Nitrogen also Compressed Air????

[soccer10lover]

WHY OR WHY NOT ----REASONS----

[Wickster]

I'm assuming you mean compressed nitrogen being compressed air. While I don't have a shop or a compressor, the earth's atmosphere is 79% nitrogen (only 16% oxygen). Therefore when you get a compressed air fill, it is 79% nitrogen. I would have a hard time believing that anyone would go through the trouble to use pure nitrogen in a fill (and I'm not sure of the consequences of using pure nitrogen in a fill). I'm pretty sure any "nitrogen" fill is really just compressed air.

[Peach]

Technicaly it's not the same... But as in how it shoots in your gun, both will behave in much the same way with little difference.

So I voted no :P.. Because Scientificly they are not the same.

[WickeDKlowN]

Scientificly(sp?)... No. But it will work exactly the same in your PB Gun.

[cphilip]

No its not the same...exactly... but for our purposes it works the same.

Nitrogen is pure Nitrogen (or close)

Air is 21% Oxygen and a little CO2 and some rare gasses and the rest is NITROGEN. Its "mostly" nitrogen.

No need for a poll for that... its a fact...

[soccer10lover]

OK OK...but I am asking if I can use compressed air in a nitro tank??

[magman007]

for our pourposes were telling you, it is the same thing! yes you can use both vice versa.

[cphilip]

Originally posted by cphilip
... but for our purposes it works the same.

[Lopy-slopy]

You can fill a any nitro/compressed air tank with nitro or compressed air. They are the same thing, as menthioned above.

[eric]

Nobody actually uses nitrogen, its just called that because air is mostly nitrogen. Why would a company sell nitrogen when you can just compress air at a much much lower cost?

[jayloo]

Eric hit the nail on the head. No-one fills paintabll tanks with pure nitrogen but you could. It would be way toooooo expensive. Depending on the grade of pure nitrogen (99.9% nitrogen)fills could cost $10 or more. Both work the same in this particular application.

If we can use liquid co2 why not use liquid n2?

[cphilip]

YOU COULD! assuming you had the proper tanks and regulators and such for them...Would get mighty heavy though. That stuff is mighty cold. And you would have to insure it turned to gas. Would get REAL bulky and expensive then.

I understand Pure Nitrogen works just a little TINY bit better but not enough to justify the cost.

[akscubainst]

I'm just guessing here, but I assume that the first guys to use compressed gas instead of CO2 probably got a 400 cubic foot Nitrogen cylinder from a gas supplier to fill the PB tanks off of. Just like allot of us do with SCUBA cylinders today.

Compressed nitrogen is used in things that need to be inflated fast like first generation airbags and helicoptor emergency floats. It's also a byproduct of making pure oxygen. Air is sent through a membrane and the N2 is stripped out pure O2 is left.

When it caught on the buzz word was "Nitrogen". Then someone realized that Scuba Divers had been using 3000psi air for ages and that air is 80% N2 they started just using air.

Now of course we have this buzz word and everyone is confused about the difference.

I doubt that anyone can really tell the difference between the performance of Compressed Air vs. Compressed Nitrogen beings how there is almost not one.

What's really important is regardless of which one you use, it's clean and dry. Moisture will cause Corrosion and oil can potentially cause fire or explosions (in air). There's an article on Warpig's site about that.

[Phil]

You can buy bulk nitrogen in 6000psi tanks from companies that sell compressed gasses such as Holox. I looked it just the other day when I returned my co2 cannister. The only thing holding me back it the $250 fill station.

[bornl33t]

funny how these agruments between kids end up on AO all the time. hahaaha

air is NOT nitro is NOT nitrous