How to Use nitrous oxide in a Sentence

nitrous oxide

noun

• The engineers of the new rocket wanted to check the flow rates of nitrous oxide.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• Wanke, 25, worked at the store, located in Athens, that sold the nitrous oxide that Wiant inhaled.
  — Fox News, 20 Nov. 2019
• One more novel shift: Starbucks wants to find a way to make whipped cream without the use of nitrous oxide.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2020
• Once the mask is removed, the effects of nitrous oxide quickly wear off.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2022
• And the habit of the early films of relying on the injection of nitrous oxide fuel to speed up a car — akin to the warp speed of sci-fi — is cheesy at best.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
• When the valve is opened, the mixture is propelled from the can by nitrous oxide (laughing gas), and the gas expands rapidly to create a foam.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2022
• One of my projects measures nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that can be formed by microbes.
  — Renée Zurui Wang, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
• Methane and nitrous oxide made up more than half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
• Farming and forestry can emit greenhouse gases like methane, nitrous oxide and CO2, but can also store it in the soil and in trees.
  — Ellen Anderson, Star Tribune, 24 Jan. 2021
• Heather just sat there, petals strewn all over the floor like nitrous oxide cartridges outside of a London nightclub.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 June 2021
• Used for nitrous oxide — one of our fun party favorites.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
• The crusade against methane and nitrous oxide will be all pain and no gain for farmers and for those who consume their produce.
  — Richard Lindzen, National Review, 16 Apr. 2021
• The first thing to know is that nitric oxide isn’t the same as nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, or the stuff that gets you a little high at the dentist.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 25 Jan. 2023
• That's because most of our row crops are conventional and have that turning of the soil, which have nitrous oxide emissions and all that.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• When not in this special testing mode, the engines could emit up to 40 times the legal limit of harmful nitrous oxides.
  — Andrew Del-Colle, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2015
• The spray uses nitrous oxide to prevent the virus from incubating and spreading to the lungs, the company said.
  — Bloomberg.com, 10 Jan. 2021
• Instead these laws seek to prohibit the sale of the objects designed for abusing nitrous oxide.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2024
• Planes spew out carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, as well as nitrous oxides, which produce the greenhouse gas ozone.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 14 Jan. 2020
• Their report states that a 13-year-old boy was found a short distance from the grounds and admitting to taking nitrous oxide, cannabis and alcohol.
  — Lilly Milman, Billboard, 30 May 2018
• So do punitive measures like New Zealand’s plan to require farmers to start paying a price for the methane that cows belch and the nitrous oxide that comes from their urine.
  — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
• There's nitrous oxide—yes, the stuff used at the dentist’s office—seeping out of the soil, thanks to all that nitrogen fertilizer.
  — David Biello, Scientific American, 16 July 2013
• According to DreamWorks’ latest flick, the trick to turning a snail into an Indy 500 champ is a quick bath in nitrous oxide.
  — Elisa Neckar, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2013
• The first was the traditional method, entailing a mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen, while the second method entailed the use of a VR headset.
  — Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• The same is ordered for nitrous oxide and methane, two other greenhouse gases.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 22 Jan. 2021
• Brussels sprouts are among the highest producers of nitrous oxide.
  — Meara Sharma, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• When cattle waste gets into the soil, the ammonia converts into the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Sep. 2021
• But in recent days, the site allegedly received a large shipment of butane, as well as propane, nitrous oxide and other products.
  — Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2024
• The officer noted that the driver’s eyelids were barely open and that nitrous oxide canisters were on his lap.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2019
• Earlier this week, authorities said that the building was not supposed to contain the butane and nitrous oxide tanks that were found on the property.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
• Nitrogen-fixing cereals would also avoid the problem of nitrous oxide wafting up from fertilized fields.
  — Leigh Phillips, The Atlantic, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024