Imagine if Earth’s history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go? Scientists have long known that our planet’s rocky outer layers—the mantle—are oddly poor in nitrogen compared to other volatile elements like carbon or water. Very strangely, the C/N and 36Ar/N ratios in the bulk silicate Earth (BSE, the whole Earth minus the metallic core) are far higher than those found in the meteorites that supposedly delivered these ingredients during the planet’s infancy.
Missing nitrogen: A dramatic game of cosmic hide-and-seek deep within our planet
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