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[–] 3 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Just make sure the room is ventilated because nitrogen is heavier than the air, it will slowly gather and you could suffocate without realizing it.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    It can settle in your lungs regardless of how the room is ventilated. Not that most anyone will die from it, but these idiots wouldn't understand what low oxygen does to a brain even if it were a worm in there instead.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

    It does not "settle in your lungs" because that's not how lungs work at all. You can of course suffocate if the atmosphere is sufficiently saturated with NO2, but your lungs are more than capable of fully expelling water; removing a gas is not difficult.

    Excretion: Nitrous oxide is primarily eliminated via the lungs. ^(^^source^^)^

    Nitrous oxide is primarily eliminated through expiration and is essentially not metabolized by the body. ^(^^source^^)^

    Seriously, where are you getting your info from?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Yeah, everything I'm reading in this thread are all the same old wives tales that I remember hearing 15+ years ago all the time. These are DARE facts as far as I'm concerned, and they just propagated.

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