Talk:Ammonia planet/@comment-212.175.32.131-20150531093055

Great article. Though Ammonia planets may not be as common as 46%, they can be quite interesting. Jupiter is quite like an ammonia planet, due to a high concentration of nitrogen and hydrogen. According to the haber process, the cold temperature of Jupiter provides an ideal high yield of ammonia. This is because the creation of Ammonia is exothermic, so a low temperature causes the equilibrium mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen to favour the production of Ammonia. In idnustry, a high temperature is used because the reaction is very slow under cold conditions. However, Jupiter is 4 to 4.5 billion years old, so plenty of Ammonia was able to form, especially given the collosal size of the planet. This shows that Ammonia may actually be more common in gas giants than on terrestrial planets.