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Why there is no hydrogen in earth's atmosphere ?

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As the root mean square speed of hydrogen is much less than of nitrogen, it easily escapes from the earth.s atmosphere.
In fact, the presence of noreactive nitrogen instead of highly combustible hydrogen deters many disastrous consequences.
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