nitrous oxide
A nonflammable gas commonly used in surgery and dentistry for its anaesthetic and…A nonflammable gas commonly used in surgery and dentistry for its anaesthetic and analgesic effects and in motorsport for bursts of added power.
» Nitrous oxide is inert at room temperature.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A nonflammable gas commonly used in surgery and dentistry for its anaesthetic and analgesic effects and in motorsport for bursts of added power.
Holonym: gas and air
Distickstoffmonoxid
за́кись азо́таzákisʹ azóta
inhalation anesthetic used as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery
Examples
4 sentencesNitrous oxide is inert at room temperature.
Nitrous oxide stopped being used as an anaesthetic a long time ago.
I love nitrous oxide.
What made the comedian's audience laugh so uncontrollably that night was a convenient nitrous oxide leak.
Translations
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Synonyms
7 synonyms- inhalation anesthetic used as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery:laughing gas
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable