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Test for Pure Laughing Gas

When pure, it is colorless, has an agreeable oder, and does not affect a solution of nitrate of silver. liquid. Its most remarkable properties are its power of destroying almost all animal and vegetable color, and the putrid odor of decomposing organic matter. It has a very strong attraction for metals. With bases chlorine forms CHLORIDES or CHLORURETS. (See No. 3853.)

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