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When used as a power adder, nitrous oxide can significantly enhance the performance potential of any internal combustion engine. However, N₂O does not actually burn, and is not a graded fuel. In fact, N₂O is inflammable. When injected as a compressed liquid at 127 degrees F, it allows an engine to burn more air/fuel by dramatically dropping intake charge temperature, resulting in a denser and more enhanced internal combustion. What is basically being done here is the creation of a more user-friendly and oxygen-enriched atmospheric condition inside the cylinders of an engine. Here are the characteristics of Nytrous Plus:

Industrial grade nitrous oxide or Nytrous Plus, which differs in purity from medical nitrous oxide, or High Purity N2O, is the official trademarked name adopted in the mid 1980s by Nellore-Puritan-Bennett. This company has been engaged in manufacturing nitrous oxide since 1913, acting upon a suggestion by NOS founder Dale Vaznaian. Instead of being 100-percent pure, Nytrous Plus’ chemical composition is 99.0-percent nitrous oxide and 0.01-percent sulpher dioxide, which was added to produce a foul odor, presumably to prevent potential substance abuse and death from asphyxiation.

• Molecular Weight: 44.02 g/mole

• Boiling/Condensation Point: 126.4 degrees F

• Melting/Freezing Point 131.8 degrees F

• Critical Temperature: 97.9 degrees F

• Vapor Pressure: 745 psig

• Vapor Density: 1.53 (Air = 1)

• Liquid Density at BP: 76.8 ft-lbs³

• Specific Volume: 8.6957

• Gas Density: .115 ft-lbs³

Hitler’s Luftwaffe took great advantage of N₂O during World War II. Specifically intended to provide superior high-altitude performance with a quick getaway, N₂O-equipped fighter planes like the Messerschmitt-produced ME-109 routinely used N₂O. The Japanese Imperial Air Force kamikaze squadrons also used N₂O as a last-minute accelerant during suicide attacks on American warships.

Over the years, N₂O has also been tested as a rocket propellant, or an oxidizer in rocket engines. In 1914, American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard suggested the use of N₂O and gasoline for a liquid-fueled rocket. Actual use of N₂O with both solid fuel and liquid fuel/impulse rockets has been also used with great success. For example, the combination of N₂O and hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene fuel was successfully used as a propellant in Spaceship One, which landed on the moon. Even amateur rocketeers use N₂O today on home-made rocket experiments.