If our body needs oxygen in the air to live. then what the 77% of nitrogen do to our body?

Question

as I was told from early education that the air we currently breathe in contains 21% oxygen and 77-ish% of nitrogen and the rest are other particles.

So I have a dumb question on what the body uses nitrogen we breathe in for?

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Answer 1

Many people are saying the nitrogen does nothing, but it actually has one very important job: it dilutes the oxygen, if we were to inhale air with 100% oxygen our lungs would quite literally burn up