Nitrous oxide is a colourless gas commonly used as an analgesic - a painkiller-in medicine and dentistry, and for producing whipped cream in cooking. When mixed with oxygen, it is known as "gas ...

there will be exemptions for legitimate uses of nitrous oxide, for example in medical or catering industries. The gas is commonly used as a painkiller and for producing whipped cream in cooking.

Although the Montreal Protocol has provided relief, anthropogenic emissions of another substance, nitrous oxide, are set to dominate ozone destruction. Figure 1: Influence of greenhouse-gas ...

Emissions of nitrous oxide—a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane—continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than 10 million metric tons flowed into the atmosphere ...