Complex sentence: Now, chemical reactions yielding N 2 are, as a rule, explosive but this is an outcome of nitrogen in compounds very much preferring to form a highly stable triatomic bond to itself and does not represent a generalised nonmetallic property.
Split into simpler sentences: Now, chemical reactions yielding N 2 are, as a rule, explosive. But this is an outcome of nitrogen in compounds very much preferring to form a highly stable triatomic bond to itself and does not represent a generalised nonmetallic property.