What made the comedian's audience laugh so uncontrollably that night was a convenient nitrous oxide leak.
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Nitrous
//ˈnaɪtɹəs//
Synonyms for "nitrous" (3 found)
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6 entriesTranslations
13 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- азотист adj (of, or relating to nitrous acid)
Catalan
1 entries- nitrós adj (of or relating to nitrogen)
French
2 entries- azoteux adj (of or relating to nitrogen)
- nitreux adj (of or relating to nitrogen)
Hungarian
2 entries- nitrogénes adj (of or relating to nitrogen)
- salétromos adj (of or relating to nitrogen)
Irish
1 entries- nítriúil adj (of or relating to nitrogen)
Italian
1 entries- nitroso adj (of or relating to nitrogen)
Polish
2 entries- azotawy adj (of or relating to nitrogen)
- azotawy adj (of, or relating to nitrous acid)
Spanish
1 entries- nitroso adj (of or relating to nitrogen)
Thai
1 entries- ไนตรัส adj (of or relating to nitrogen)
Welsh
1 entries- nitrus adj (of, or relating to nitrous acid)
Sample sentences
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Our atmosphere contains 21% oxygen, which is necessary for us to breathe, 78% nitrogen, and 0.9% argon. The other 0.1% consists of water vapor, carbon dioxide, neon, methane, krypton, helium, xenon, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and ozone.
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Nitrous oxide stopped being used as an anaesthetic a long time ago.
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Nitrous oxide is inert at room temperature.
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