Nitrous Oxide
jon.peticolas
> I had an anti-drug counselor appear for a short while at my high school a
> few years back. She referred to NO2 (or was it N2O? I don't remember.) as
> "THE BLUE DEATH" because people were frequently found dead from deliberate
> inhalations, with their skins tinted blue from oxygen-poor blood. It seems
Well at least you're posting this to the right newsgroup. :-)
-Jon
...so I called the red tape action hotline.
And?
They sent me a stack of forms to fill out.
David L. Pope
> cream cans contain nitrous oxide propellant?
Yes!
> And if it is, uh, what are the best brands to use?
The cheapest, and don't shake them first. One can holds one
breath. For economy, use 'Whippets', little CO2-style canisters
sold in some drug stores. Don't freeze your lips or lungs by
venting the compressed gas too fast.
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Julius Yangst
>breath. For economy, use 'Whippets', little CO2-style canisters
>sold in some drug stores. Don't freeze your lips or lungs by
>venting the compressed gas too fast.
Oh man. Please don't suck from the whippet directly. Vent it all into a
garbage bag and puff it out of the bag into your face. Don't put your
head in the bag, no matter what. Make sure there is always one person around
you who is not on anything, for safety. With drugs, always be careful!
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John Wichers
>ran...@cbnewse.att.com (David L. Pope) writes:
>
>>breath. For economy, use 'Whippets', little CO2-style canisters
>>sold in some drug stores. Don't freeze your lips or lungs by
>>venting the compressed gas too fast.
>
>Oh man. Please don't suck from the whippet directly. Vent it all into a
>garbage bag and puff it out of the bag into your face.
Well, it just so happens that soda siphons happen to accept C02 cartridges
that are the exact same size as the N20 ones. They are most often found in
cooking and housewares stores (e.g. around Boston you can find 'em at Crate
and Barrel), and are meant for use with whipped cream makers (you stick the
nozzle in heavy cream, and the N20 shoots out and whips the stuff for you).
Theoretically (*I* would never do something like this, honest), you could
just use the soda siphon instead of a bag or inhaling it directly. It has
several advantages:
1) The N20 goes through the body of the siphon first, giving it
enough time to warm up so that you don't frost yer lungs
inhaling it directly.
2) Although it's never happened to me (after all, I've never done
whippets, remember?), there is presumeably some chance of you
passing out from oxygen deprivation. Why, just the other day
a FOAF was telling me about a friend of hers who ... but I digress.
If you're using a siphon and you passed out, you'd stop breathing
it, and you wouldn't suffer the loss of more than a few brain
cells (and that's good for you - survival of the fittest!).
Hmm...all this talk about whippets has made me...thirsty. Yeah, that's it,
thirsty. I think I'll go have a drink. Now, where did my housemate put his
soda siphon...?
--jjw
p.s. DJ, you didn't read this.
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Sorry, but it's not an UL that Nitrous Oxide is used as a propellant
in whipped cream. Check any can of pressurized whipped cream, and it
will tell you. That's also why you can buy cannisters of nitrous in
little cartriges. They are meant to be used for home-made whipped
cream. Somehow, I don't think that's why head shops sell them...
-Antman
'it's a gas!'