nitrous oxide

English

Noun

nitrous oxide (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A non-flammable gas (N₂O) commonly used in surgery and dentistry for its anaesthetic and analgesic effects and in motorsport for bursts of added power.

   Synonyms: (anaesthetic) laughing gas, dinitrogen oxide, dinitrogen monoxide, (slang) hippy crack, (propellant) E942, (automotive) nos, (automotive) nox, NOx, N₂O, N2O

   Hypernyms: greenhouse gas, nox, NOx

   • 2024 September 23, Trace William Cowen, “What the Hell Is Galaxy Gas?”, in Complex‎^[1]:

     On social media and beyond, many have taken to using the brand’s name in a more colloquial fashion, with “Galaxy Gas” being used as a catchall for nitrous oxide inhalants at large, regardless of whether they are actually Galaxy Gas products or not.

Translations

nitrous oxide

• Catalan: òxid nitrós m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一氧化二氮 (zh) (yīyǎnghuà'èrdàn), 氧化亞氮 / 氧化亚氮 (zh) (yǎnghuàyàdàn)

• Czech: oxid dusný (cs) m
• Finnish: typpioksiduuli (fi), dityppioksidi (fi)
• French: protoxyde d'azote (fr) m
• German: Distickstoffmonoxid n
• Greek: υποξείδιο του αζώτου (el) n (ypoxeídio tou azótou)
• Hungarian: dinitrogén-oxid (hu), dinitrogén-monoxid, kéjgáz (hu), nevetőgáz
• Japanese: 亜酸化窒素 (ja) (あさんかちっそ, asanka chisso)
• Polish: podtlenek azotu m, gaz rozweselający m
• Portuguese: óxido nitroso m, gás hilariante m, gás do riso m
• Russian: за́кись азо́та f (zákisʹ azóta)
• Slovak: oxid dusný
• Spanish: óxido nitroso m
• Thai: ไนตรัสออกไซด์ (nai-dtrâs-ɔ́k-saai)
• Turkish: nitröz oksit sg

See also

• gas and air

Further reading

• nitrous oxide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia