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nitrous oxide
noun
- a colorless, sweet-smelling, sweet-tasting, nonflammable, slightly water-soluble gas, N 2 O, 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.
nitrous oxide
noun
- a colourless nonflammable slightly soluble gas with a sweet smell: used as an anaesthetic in dentistry and surgery. Formula: N 2 O Systematic namedinitrogen oxide Also calledlaughing gas
nitrous oxide
- A colorless, sweet-smelling gas. It is used as a mild anesthetic, often called laughing gas. Nitrous oxide occurs naturally in the atmosphere and is a greenhouse gas. Chemical formula: N 2 O.
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Example Sentences
Campbell is quoted saying “Nitrous oxide can explode on its own.”
Nitrous oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas, gives one an exhilarating feeling while operating as an anesthetic.
Tragic indeed are those whip-it rumors about Demi Moore, for the allure of nitrous oxide is hardly a mystery to me.
To him is to be credited the first operation ever performed without pain by the use of nitrous-oxide gas.
His eyes were fixed upon one of the Bunsen burners beneath which stood a retort labelled plainly enough, "Nitrous Oxide."
Provided an artificial-limb factory and special plants for the manufacture of splints and nitrous oxide gas.
The moment after I began to respire twenty quarts of unmingled nitrous oxide.
It was then and not until then that the nitrous-oxide plant began running at anything like its real capacity.
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