How Nitrous Oxide Works

Stuff You Should Know

• Episode: How Nitrous Oxide Works
• Website: Stuff You Should Know
• Feed URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-should-know.rss
• Duration: 01:00:42
• Published: 2016-02-18 17:42

For about 175 years people have been huffing nitrous oxide for everything from vision quests to anesthetic to get plain old high. And after all that time we are only now beginning to understand how it works on our brains.