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Grammar : Noun



Définition of laughing gas

  • noun inhaled anesthetic
Example sentences :
  • On one occasion a company of young men went to Dr. Long's office and asked him to make them a supply of "laughing gas."
  • Extract from : « Stories Of Georgia » by Joel Chandler Harris
  • The most familiar example of this occurs at the beginning of the inhalation of laughing gas.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by James J. Walsh
  • He experimented with nitrous oxide (laughing gas) for ten months until he had thoroughly learned its intoxicating effects.
  • Extract from : « Historic Inventions » by Rupert S. Holland
  • In 1800 Sir Humphry Davy experimented with nitrous oxide gas, called "laughing gas," and discovered its anæsthetic qualities.
  • Extract from : « Great Inventions and Discoveries » by Willis Duff Piercy
  • You would have supposed, indeed, that the troops were under the effect of champagne or laughing gas.
  • Extract from : « Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee and his Paladins » by John Esten Cooke
  • In 1844, the use of nitrous oxide gas (laughing gas) as an ansthetic was introduced by Dr. Wells.
  • Extract from : « Invention » by Bradley A. Fiske
  • Carbon burned in protoxide of nitrogen, or laughing gas, N2O, produces about 38 per cent.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. » by Various
  • Nitrous oxid, or "laughing gas," was first used in labor cases in 1880 by a Russian physician.
  • Extract from : « The Mother and Her Child » by William S. Sadler
  • Nitrous oxide gas is generally known by the name of “laughing gas,” from the jolly sensations experienced on inhaling it.
  • Extract from : « Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopdia of Sports and Amusements » by Various
  • After our summer at Monomoy in the sea air, we need an atmosphere of ozone, not of laughing gas.
  • Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray

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