This property of both nitro and nitrate groups is because their thermal decomposition yields molecular nitrogen N 2 gas plus considerable energy, due to the high strength of the bond in molecular nitrogen.
Mount Ararat (16,940 feet, 5165 m) is the largest volcano in Turkey. Although not currently active, its most recent eruption has probably been within the last 10,000 years.
Photo Courtesy of IRAN Mountain Zone Climbing Tours. Damavand volcano towers dramatically 50 km to the NE above Iran's capital city of Tehran. The 5670-m-high stratovolcano is the highest volcano in the Middle East and was constructed above the southern rim of a 9-km-wide caldera.