Nitric Oxide molecule
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UCAR (Randy Russell)
Four representations chemists use for nitric oxide (NO). Nitric oxide is a gas that is found in small quantities in Earth's atmosphere. Nitric oxide is a simple molecule consisting of one atom each of oxygen and nitrogen. In the colored models of molecules, nitrogen is blue and oxygen is red.