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2 days ago · In vehicle racing, nitrous oxide (often called "nitrous") increases engine power by providing more oxygen during combustion, thus allowing the engine to burn more fuel. It is an oxidising agent roughly equivalent to hydrogen peroxide, and much stronger than molecular oxygen.
4 days ago · Nitrous oxide, also called laughing gas, one of several oxides of nitrogen, a colorless gas with pleasant, sweetish odor and taste, which when inhaled produces insensibility to pain preceded by mild hysteria, sometimes laughter. It is sometimes used as a recreational drug.
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3 days ago · Firefighter I Chapter 4. Get a hint. When a substance changes from one type of matter into another, such as two or more substances combining to form compounds, the substance undergoes a: a. dissolution. b. metamorphosis.
6 days ago · the primary way that water extinguishes a fire is by absorbing heat which creates a cooling effect. when heated to its boiling point, water absorbs heat and converts into water vapor in a process called vaporization.
3 days ago · Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Adding a fourth component, a chemical chain reaction, to the fire triangle creates which of the following models?, At what temperature does fuel continue combustion without any external input of heat, becoming self-sustaining?, Cooking materials such as cooking oils, fats, and ...
3 days ago · He had produced oxygen gas by heating mercuric oxide (HgO) and various nitrates in 1771–72. [17] [18] [9] Scheele called the gas "fire air" because it was then the only known agent to support combustion. He wrote an account of this discovery in a manuscript titled Treatise on Air and Fire, which he sent to his publisher in 1775. That document ...
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5 days ago · Ideal gas, a gas that conforms, in physical behavior, to a particular idealized relation between pressure, volume, and temperature called the ideal gas law, which states that the product of the volume and pressure is proportional to the absolute temperature.
