nitrous oxide

English

Noun

nitrous oxide (uncountable)

(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

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
Hungarian: dinitrogén-oxid, 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)

See also

gas and air

Further reading

nitrous oxide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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