Wednesday 27 May 2009

Breathing Xenon

Xenon is the heaviest non-radioactive noble gas and is used for ion thrusters, general anesthetic, and various types of lighting sources. These chemistry guys take a more inquisitive, educational, and refined approach to getting just a teensy bit high.

Warning: don't try this at home.



(via Urlesque)

9 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

N20 not NO2

Anonymous said...

Lord Vader

Anonymous said...

should be n2o, not no2.

Unknown said...

Xenon is very expensive, but it considered to be the ideal inhaled anesthetic gas, fast in, fast out, and potent. Anesthetists like myself would love to employ this gas in our practice but no one could afford the bill.

Anonymous said...

Rubs the lotion on her skin or else she gets the hose again!

dude sounds so much like silence of the lambs freak after inhaling that stuff...

Anonymous said...

I will have the penne a la arrabiata

Anonymous said...

Both are N2O. What you add to the car is normally tainted with sulfur to prevent its inhalation. You'll only try it once with the sulfur...

Anonymous said...

keerist..
nubcaekes who failled even high school chemistry.
N2O -> laughing gas, ozidizer and "nitrous"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrous_oxide
NO2 -> toxic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_dioxide

Yeah right.. if the dentist gave you NO2.. you'd be coughing up your lungs full of nitric acid.

MalikTous said...

We used to huff helium (always from a balloon, never from a cylinder!) for laughs, but Xenon is what I remember as one of the most common Fission Products from uranium fission in a nuke plant, along with Krypton. I guess it's just another crazy thing to do?

Kudos on differentiating Nitrous Oxide, Nitric Oxide, Nitrogen Dioxide... Be careful, always! Cylinder-suckers blow out their lungs!