Nitrous Oxide Overview Nitrous oxide (NYE-truss OX-side) is also known as dinitrogen oxide, dinitrogen monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, and laughing gas. It is a colorless, nonflammable gas with a sweet odor. Its common name of laughing gas is derived from...

Nitrous oxide (N2O), also called di-nitrogen monoxide, is one of several gaseous oxides of nitrogen. It is sometimes referred to as laughing gas, because when inhaled it causes a feeling of intoxication, mild hysteria, and sometimes laughter. The gas...

Nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas" (dinitrogen monoxide, N2O) is the only inorganic gas that is practical for clinical anesthetics. It was first synthesized in 1776 by Joseph Priestley and was named "diminished nitrous air." He noted its effects when...

The gas nitrous oxide was first identified by Joseph Priestley in 1772. Years later, in the late 1790s, the British chemist Humphry Davy began experimenting with the effects of inhaling nitrous oxide. He noted its exhilarating effects, and the way it...

Nitrous oxide (also called dinitrogen oxide or dinitrogen monoxide, or sometimes laughing gas) is a chemical compound with the chemical formula N2O. At room temperature, it is a colorless non-flammable gas, with a pleasant, slightly sweet odor and...

University Wire 06-17-1999 (The Post) (U-WIRE) ATHENS, Ohio -- Inhaling nitrous oxide from balloons at concerts is not strange for Ohio University sophomore Adam Goldstein. At many of the concerts he attends, vendors illegally sell balloons filled with the gas, and concertgoers purchase them...

Myles et al in their recent review of nitrous oxide (N^sub 2^O) are to be congratulated on a comprehensive discussion of this commonly used anaesthetic drug and they pose an interesting question regarding its role in routine practice. Paediatric anaesthetists also, have been cautious...

An explosion on Thursday killed two workers and critically injured four others at a Mojave Desert airport site used by the pioneering aerospace company that sent the first private manned rocket into space, authorities said.The blast at a Mojave Air and Space Port facility belonging...

An explosion killed two workers and critically injured four others at a Mojave Desert airport site used by the pioneering aerospace company that sent the first private manned rocket into space, authorities said.The blast Thursday at a Mojave Air and Space Port facility belonging to...