3 Smart Things About Nitrous Oxide

摘要

1. Kids who suck nitrous from Reddi-wip cans are part of a noble tradition. The scientist who discovered the analgesic properties of N_2O, Humphry Davy, didn't use it to perform root canals. He held "inhalation experiments" (involving as much as 80 quarts of laughing gas) with his buds, including junkie poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.