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nitrous oxide

–noun Chemistry, Pharmacology.
a colorless, sweet-smelling, sweet-tasting, nonflammable, slightly water-soluble gas, N2O, that sometimes produces a feeling of exhilaration when inhaled: used chiefly as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery, in the manufacture of chemicals, and as an aerosol.
Also called laughing gas.


Origin:
1790–1800
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laugh·ing gas   (lāf'ĭng, lä'fĭng)
n.  Nitrous oxide, especially as used as an anesthetic.
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Main Entry: laughing gas
Function: noun
: NITROUS OXIDE

Main Entry: nitrous oxide
Function: noun
: a colorless gas N2O that when inhaled produces loss of sensibility to pain preceded by exhilaration and sometimeslaughter and is used especially as an anesthetic in dentistry called also laughing gas
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laughing gas laugh·ing gas (lāf'ĭng)
n.
Nitrous oxide, especially as used as an anesthetic.

nitrous oxide n.
A colorless sweet-tasting gas used as a mild anesthetic in dentistry and surgery.

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