Nitrous
[naitrәs]
Definition
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, niter; of the quality of niter, or resembling it.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of those compounds in which nitrogen has a relatively lower valence as contrasted with nitric compounds.
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Examples
- In the words of Dalton, oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas [as he called nitric oxide], or with twice that po rtion, but with no intermediate portion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Nitrous oxide gas is chiefly used for the extraction of teeth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Ether as a chemical product has been known for several centuries, and as early as 1818 Faraday pointed out the similarity between the effects of ether and nitrous oxide gas. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He experimented with nitrous oxide (laughing gas) for ten months until he had thoroughly learned its intoxicating effects. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Those more generally employed are--naming them in the order of their first application--nitrous oxide gas, ether, and chloroform. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- After he had been in the box an hour and a q uarter, he respired twenty quarts of pure nitrous oxide. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Chloroform, nitrous oxide gas, and ether had been placed at the service of the physician in saving life, and the revolver, guncotton, and nitroglycerine added to the agencies for slaughter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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