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Meanings of nitrous in English

Of or containing nitrogen.

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The rule covers global warming pollutants including carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide.
Reuters
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So too are nitrous emissions and other impurities, including mercury and soot.
BBC
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A character representation of the effects produced by inhaling nitrous oxide gas.
James Cutbush, an American Chemist, 1788-1823
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A nitrous oxide-acetylene flame is used for the determination by atomic-absorption spectroscopy.
Pubmed
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The rule covers global warming pollutants including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
Reuters
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But rising levels of nitrous oxide and methane offsets some of the benefit.
Reuters
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The oxide of nitrogen so formed is called nitrous oxide or laughing gas.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry
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Finally I reached the rotting oblong box and removed the damp nitrous cover.
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
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The moment after I began to respire twenty quarts of unmingled nitrous oxide.
A History of Science — Volume 4
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Aggregate respiratory and mucous membrane symptoms were also significantly higher with nitrous acid.
Pubmed
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Emissions of other greenhouse gases, such as nitrous oxides, were down.
Reuters
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On gentle heating, it is decomposed into water and nitrous oxide.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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English chemist Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen, first synthesized nitrous oxide in 1775.
Wired
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So we say that nitrous acid is more reliable than nitric for etching.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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This article reports findings from 6 months of nitrous oxide use in the field.
Pubmed
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The position of nitrous oxide in the foregoing table is worthy of particular notice.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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