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From: hkr4627@acf4.UUCP (Hedley K. J. Rainnie)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Nitrous Oxide???
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 21:30:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 21:30:00 1985
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The nitrous that your friend was using is nitrous oxide.  Compressed in the
bottle, it is in liquid form but when injected into the engine becomes a
gas.  It is the oxygen in NO2 that does the work, allowing more gasoline to
be burned and still maintain the correct oxygen/fuel ratio.  Nitrous kits
always come with some way of injecting extra fuel with the nitrous.

The other nitrous is nitro-methane and is a fuel in and of itself.

Rei Shinozuka
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