Re: Liquid explosives

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:51:57 -0400, gfretwell@xxxxxxx Gave us:

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:40:40 GMT, Phat Bytestard
<phatbytestard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's an inert gas that when heated sufficiently, breaks down with a
SLIGHT exothermic response. The Oxygen it releases is what the fuel
folks are after.

Nitrous makes two things "faster"
Cars and women.

Even though as a kid in the seventies I did build a few racing
engines, none of them were nitrous set-ups, but that didn't keep me
from knowing what nitrous was/is.

Also, it makes them faster in two ways (women). Your car, and let
'em huff a bit (the old stuff). :-]
.

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