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Two neurologists report on the rising cases of paralysis due to nitrous oxide abuse they have encountered in recent times.
In 2001, the average age of death from a volatile substance was 28. By 2020, it had risen to 46.
Sir Humphry Davy was the Professor Brian Cox of the 1800s.
From medical use to getting high on balloons, nitrous oxide is in popular demand.
Carbon dioxide is the “face” of the greenhouse gases, but nitrous oxide (N2O) merits its own spotlight. The same “laughing gas” once used by dentists as an anaesthetic and used today by people looking…
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