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    Nitrous oxide (dinitrogen oxide or dinitrogen monoxide), commonly known as laughing gas, nitrous, factitious air, among others, is a chemical compound...
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    Nitrous oxide (N2O), commonly referred to with street names such as nangs, Nitrus, hippy crack, whippets, whippits or cannies, is an inert gas which can...
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    A nitrous oxide engine, or nitrous oxide system (NOS) is an internal combustion engine in which oxygen for burning the fuel comes from the decomposition...
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    Nitrous oxide, as medical gas supply, is an inhaled gas used as pain medication, and is typically administered with 50% oxygen mix. It is often used together...
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    manufacturing. Nitric oxide should not be confused with nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a brown gas and major air pollutant, or with nitrous oxide (N2O), an anesthetic...
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  • Nitrous oxide is a colorless, non-flammable gas, commonly known as laughing gas. Nitrous oxide may also refer to: Nitrous oxide (medication) Nitrous oxide...
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  • Nitrous oxide fuel blend propellants are a class of liquid rocket propellants that were intended in the early 2010s to be able to replace hydrazine as...
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    In enzymology, a nitrous oxide reductase also known as nitrogen:acceptor oxidoreductase (N2O-forming) is an enzyme that catalyzes the final step in bacterial...
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    whipped cream charger is a steel cylinder or cartridge filled with nitrous oxide (N2O) that is used as a whipping agent in a whipped cream dispenser...
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  • nitrogen(IV) oxide Nitrogen trioxide (NO3), or nitrate radical Nitrous oxide (N2O), nitrogen(0,II) oxide Dinitrogen dioxide (N2O2), nitrogen(II) oxide dimer...
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  • produces flavored whipped-cream chargers and dispensers containing nitrous oxide. Founded in 2021, Galaxy Gas is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Despite their...
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  • Music for Nitrous Oxide is the first studio album released by Stars of the Lid on Sedimental Records in 1995. The album features minimal, droning compositions...
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  • NOx (redirect from Nitrogen oxide emissions)
    oxides emitted can be a significant source of air pollution. NOx gases are also produced naturally by lightning. NOx does not include nitrous oxide (N2O)...
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    case of gasoline or acetone) or from a pressurized container (e.g., nitrous oxide or butane), and do not include drugs that are sniffed after burning...
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    known as nitrous anhydride) is the inorganic compound with the formula N2O3. It is a nitrogen oxide. It forms upon mixing equal parts of nitric oxide and nitrogen...
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    combustion engines. Sulfur dioxide, the principal oxide of sulfur, is emitted from volcanoes. Nitrous oxide ("laughing gas") is a potent greenhouse gas produced...
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  • greenhouse gas emissions. Those gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. The...
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    Nitrogen (section Oxides)
    Nitrogen forms nine molecular oxides, some of which were the first gases to be identified: N2O (nitrous oxide), NO (nitric oxide), N2O3 (dinitrogen trioxide)...
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  • (NIR), nitric oxide reductase (NOR) and nitrous oxide reductase (NOS), turning nitrogen oxides back to nitrogen gas (N2) or nitrous oxide (N2O). There...
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    farming). And from indirect emissions. With regards to direct emissions, nitrous oxide and methane makeup over half of total greenhouse gas emissions from...
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  • N2O, subtitled as Nitrous Oxide in North America, is a 1998 tube shooter for the PlayStation, featuring a soundtrack composed by the American electronic...
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  • dictionary. NOS may refer to: Nitrous oxide, also known as nos Nitric oxide synthase, a class of enzymes Nitrous oxide system, an internal combustion...
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    impact. Nitrous oxide (N2O) and fluorinated gases (F-gases) play a lesser role in comparison. Emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in 2023...
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    land use, land-use change, and forestry. Together with methane and nitrous oxide from manure, this makes livestock the main source of greenhouse gas...
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    establishment with critical care facilities. Inhalation sedation using nitrous oxide has a long history of safe use in both medicine and dentistry. It can...
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  • is applied to, for example, oxygen, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia, methane, hydrogen, ethylene, etc. Select...
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    with discovering clathrate hydrates. In 1799, he experimented with nitrous oxide and was astonished at how it made him laugh. He nicknamed it "laughing...
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    pioneered the use of anesthesia in medicine, specifically the use of nitrous oxide (or laughing gas). Wells was the first of three children of Horace and...
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    One therefore has a mobile delivery system for nitrous oxide, which they call MONODS (mobile nitrous oxide delivery system). The MONODS is built on an open...
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    entactogens such as MDMA ("ecstasy"), 2C-B ("nexus") and inhalants (e.g., nitrous oxide and poppers) to stimulants (e.g., amphetamine and cocaine), depressants/sedatives...
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