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.

   Synonyms: (anaesthetic) laughing gas, dinitrogen oxide, dinitrogen monoxide, (slang) hippy crack, (propellant) E942

   Hypernym: greenhouse gas

Translations

nitrous oxide

• Catalan: òxid nitrós m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氧化亚氮 (zh) (yǎnghuàyàdàn)

• Czech: oxid dusný m
• Finnish: typpioksiduuli (fi), dityppioksidi (fi)
• German: Distickstoffmonoxid n
• Hungarian: dinitrogén-oxid, dinitrogén-monoxid, kéjgáz, nevetőgáz
• Japanese: 亜酸化窒素 (あさんかちっそ, asanka chisso)
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• Polish: podtlenek azotu m, tlenek diazotu 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

See also

• gas and air

Further reading

• nitrous oxide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia