nitrous+gas
11nitrous oxide — ► NOUN ▪ a colourless gas with a sweetish odour, used as an anaesthetic …
12nitrous oxide — n. a colorless, nonflammable gas, N2O, used as an anesthetic and in aerosols …
13Nitrous oxide — N2O redirects here. For other uses, see N2O (disambiguation). Laughing gas redirects here. For other uses, see Laughing gas (disambiguation). Not to be confused with nitric oxide (formula NO) or nitrogen dioxide (formula NO2). For other uses, see …
14Nitrous oxide and oxygen — Entonox CD cylinder and giving set Gas and air redirects here, for the 1923 film, see Gas and Air (film) A mix of nitrous oxide 50% and oxygen 50% is a medical anaesthesia gas, commonly known as Entonox (a registered trademark of BOC) or Nitronox …
15Nitrous oxide engine — This page discusses the use of nitrous oxide in a racing context. For other uses, see Nitrous oxide. Dragster in near lane is purging nitrous oxide Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a chemical compound used as an oxidizing agent to increase an internal… …
16nitrous oxide — Chem., Pharm. 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 …
17nitrous oxide — N2O; a nonflammable, nonexplosive gas that will support combustion; widely used as a rapidly acting, rapidly reversible, nondepressant, and nontoxic inhalation analgesic to supplement other anesthetics and analgesics; its anesthetic potency alone …
18gas — gasless, adj. /gas/, n., pl. gases, v., gassed, gassing. n. 1. Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid. 2. any such fluid or mixture of fluids. 3. any… …
19Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) — A gas that can cause general anesthesia. Nitrous oxide is sometimes given in the company of other anesthetic agents but it is not used today as the only anesthetic agent because the concentration of nitrous oxide needed to produce anesthesia is… …
20gas — n. accelerator 1) to step on the gas combustible gaseous mixture 2) to light, turn on the gas 3) to turn off the gas 4) coal; natural gas substance dispersed through the air to disable the enemy 5) mustard; nerve; poison, toxic; tear gas misc. 6) …
