Nitrous Oxide

The European Court of Justice has passed a ruling against Spain’s lack of action against dangerous NO2 levels present within its two largest cities — The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has passed a ruling that Spain, between 2010 and 2018, allowed NO2 air pollution levels to systematically exceed the European Union’s limits in both Barcelona and Madrid, which paves the way for potential penalties to be sought by Brussels.

If someone asked me who wrote the novel Ben-Hur, chances are I’d come up with the author’s name, Lew Wallace. That was the extent of my knowledge of him until today. In an article by Kerry J. Byrne at foxnews.com, details of his extraordinary life are revealed. For one, he…

Almost every aspect of modern life, from the food we eat, the car we drive, or the appliances in our homes, has a measurable impact on climate change through the emission of greenhouse gases. Have you ever heard phrases such as “we only have 10 years to save the planet”…

Opinion — At the beginning of the 1980s, a series of very profound changes were initiated in the milk cow nutrition approaches, because of the highest levels of production per cow that were reached by the productive systems of the northern hemisphere. Nutrition is defined as the series of processes through which…

The title of the Forbes article made me laugh: “Can Laughing Gas Help People with Treatment-resistant Depression?” A truly depressed person would never ask such a question. Of course it would help! Whether it would be a cure-all is another question, of course, but it would HAVE TO HELP…

How Safe is it? — Recently, the New York Times published a sensationalist news story warning about the dangers of using nitrous oxide as a recreational drug. It was not an editorial and did not advocate any particular policy measures to prevent nitrous abuse. …

Priestley first made nitrous oxide gas in 1772 and Devi studied its properties. Smelling this gas causes laughter. For this reason, it is also called laughing gas. Preparation: Oxidation of hydroxylamine nitrous oxide is obtained by oxidizing hydroxylamine salts with Sodium nitrite, copper sulfate, potassium permanganate or ferric chloride. Reduction of nitric acid reduction of HNO 3 by…

A 2014 research paper got me thinking about the relative impact of Nitrous Oxide, Carbon Dioxide, and Methane on global warming. The results were surprising. The paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/srep03950) suggests that Nitrous Oxide [N2O] release into the atmosphere by urea and ammonia based fertilizers used in agricultural land management can be…