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The 51 pages that link to Nitrous oxide, each with the reason it gives.

• Nitrogen fixationRelated: Reactive nitrogen added through fixation can later be converted into this potent gas.

• Nitrogen cycleRelated: Soil nitrogen transformations release nitrous oxide, linking the cycle to climate and atmospheric chemistry.

• NitrogenRelated: Agricultural nitrogen transformations release this potent climate pollutant.

• FertilizerRelated: Soil microbes can convert applied nitrogen into this potent greenhouse gas.

• UreaRelated: Nitrogen released from urea can contribute to soil nitrous oxide emissions.

• Nutrient pollutionRelated: Excess reactive nitrogen can increase nitrous oxide emissions from ecosystems.

• NitrificationRelated: Nitrifying microbes can release N₂O as a by-product, especially under certain conditions.

• Vitamin B12 deficiencyRelated: Exposure can trigger functional B12 deficiency even when blood B12 appears adequate.

• Nitrogen fertilizerRelated: Soil microbes can convert fertilizer nitrogen into climate-warming nitrous oxide.

• Humphry DavyRelated: Davy’s experiments documented its pain-relieving effects and helped prompt later medical use.

• Oxygen minimum zoneRelated: Oxygen-poor waters can produce nitrous oxide, which may escape to the atmosphere.

• BiocharRelated: Biochar can alter soil nitrous oxide emissions, with effects varying by site and conditions.

• Conservation tillageRelated: Changes in soil moisture and nitrogen cycling can affect emissions from reduced-tillage fields.

• Adipic acidRelated: Conventional nitric-acid oxidation of cyclohexanone and cyclohexanol can release this potent greenhouse gas.

• History of anesthesiaRelated: Humphry Davy’s experiments with the gas helped inspire its use in surgery.

• Synthetic fertilizerRelated: Some applied fertilizer nitrogen is converted by soil microbes into this greenhouse gas.

• Faint young Sun paradoxRelated: It has been proposed as an additional greenhouse gas in an oxygen-poor early atmosphere.

• Ostwald processRelated: It can form as a by-product of ammonia oxidation and escape from plants.

• Permafrost carbon feedbackRelated: Thawing soils may release this gas, adding a less-studied pathway to the feedback.

• Selective catalytic reductionRelated: Some SCR catalyst conditions can form nitrous oxide as an unwanted byproduct.

• Anesthesia machineRelated: It can be delivered as part of the machine's fresh-gas mixture.

• Horace WellsRelated: Wells used the gas to produce insensibility during dental extraction.

• James Young SimpsonRelated: Its use preceded Simpson’s experiments and formed part of the early search for inhaled pain relief.

• Whipped creamRelated: Charged dispensers dissolve gas in cream and release it as a rapid foam.

• CaprolactamRelated: Certain caprolactam production routes release nitrous oxide during hydroxylamine manufacture.

• CyanocobalaminRelated: Exposure can cause functional B₁₂ deficiency that cyanocobalamin treatment may need to address.

• AnestheticRelated: Its analgesic effects and limited anesthetic potency distinguish it from potent inhaled agents.

• History of fertilizerRelated: Nitrogen fertilizer use can increase emissions of this potent climate pollutant.

• NitrososphaeriaRelated: Some ammonia-oxidizing archaea produce N₂O during nitrogen metabolism.