How to Use nitrous oxide in a Sentence

nitrous oxide

noun
  • Once the mask is removed, the effects of nitrous oxide quickly wear off.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 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
  • Rice paddies emit methane and nitrous oxide from wet or flooded soils.
    — Hanqin Tian, The Conversation, 22 May 2026
  • Rice paddies emit methane and nitrous oxide from wet or flooded soils.
    — Hanqin Tian, Fortune, 25 May 2026
  • The engineers of the new rocket wanted to check the flow rates of nitrous oxide.
    — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Americans have known about the effects of nitrous oxide for centuries.
    — Andrew Yockey, The Conversation, 9 May 2025
  • 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
  • Tim has spent countless hours over the last three years researching addiction to nitrous oxide.
    — Liz Crawford, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • However, people can misuse the product to get high from the nitrous oxide.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 19 Sep. 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
  • Brussels sprouts are among the highest producers of nitrous oxide.
    — Meara Sharma, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The same is ordered for nitrous oxide and methane, two other greenhouse gases.
    — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 22 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
  • Two open alcoholic drinks and a can of nitrous oxide were found on the ground near the man, investigators said.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2025
  • Instead these laws seek to prohibit the sale of the objects designed for abusing nitrous oxide.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Earlier this week, a man was killed, and his wife was injured when a nitrous oxide cylinder from a car failed and exploded.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • The photographer snaps pictures as someone brings in a giant tank, wrapped in a trash bag, filled with nitrous oxide.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Officials also shouldn’t stop with nitrous oxide.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Someone has welded nitrous oxide tanks into a rainbow archway that frames the city skyline in the distance.
    — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2025
  • This isn't the first time SZA has expressed concern about the effects of nitrous oxide.
    — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 21 May 2025
  • That covers nitrous oxide, but also poppers, household solvents and aerosols.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2025
  • When cattle waste gets into the soil, the ammonia converts into the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Aurora City Council took the first step this week by cracking down on the open market for nitrous oxide.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Methane and nitrous oxide made up more than half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Spinach also supplies magnesium and folate, which help your body produce nitrous oxide.
    — Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Spinach also supplies magnesium and folate, which help your body produce nitrous oxide.
    — Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 26 Nov. 2025
  • 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 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
  • Evil Dentists There was also a Weeknd who seemed to be addicted to nitrous oxide.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024

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