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Effect of tear gas and laughing gas together
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Effect of tear gas and laughing gas together
Admittedly, I had to smile when I first read your question.
Unfortunately, the effect for people exposed to both agents is not comparable to hearing a joke and a sad story at the same time. There is no cuteness in that.
Flooding an enclosed space with $\ce{N2O}$ is not a good idea! $\ce{N2O}$ is an interesting drug, used for sedation in dentistry. Here, a mixture of $\ce{N2O}$
and oxygen is fed to the patient through a nose mask, while the patient can freely exhale. Note that $\ce{N2O}$ apparently isn't metabolized, but just exhaled.
Feeding a heavier-than-air gas to a room without proper fresh air supply and circulation will lead to accumulation of this gas. Whether this could lead to (cerebral) hypoxia and permanent damages is open to calculation.
The use of CS in enclosed spaces is even worse. It is actually considered a chemical weapon, banned from war zones and only used in civil riot control. Oh, the irony! Note that it actually isn't a gas but a solid, dispersed either in solution or from granades. It is a strong irritant to all mucuous membranes and the skin.
Now imagine a densely packed auditorium full of people with burning sensation in their eyes and on their skin, crying, shouting, coughing, vomiting and running around in panic for an exit or relief and you know that this isn't the place to be!
Admittedly, I had to smile when I first read your question.
Unfortunately, the effect for people exposed to both agents is not comparable to hearing a joke and a sad story at the same time. There is no cuteness in that.
Flooding an enclosed space with $\ce{N2O}$ is not a good idea! $\ce{N2O}$ is an interesting drug, used for sedation in dentistry. Here, a mixture of $\ce{N2O}$and oxygen is fed to the patient through a nose mask, while the patient can freely exhale. Note that $\ce{N2O}$ apparently isn't metabolized, but just exhaled.
Feeding a heavier-than-air gas to a room without proper fresh air supply and circulation will lead to accumulation of this gas. Whether this could lead to (cerebral) hypoxia and permanent damages is open to calculation.
The use of CS in enclosed spaces is even worse. It is actually considered a chemical weapon, banned from war zones and only used in civil riot control. Oh, the irony! Note that it actually isn't a gas but a solid, dispersed either in solution or from granades. It is a strong irritant to all mucuous membranes and the skin.
Now imagine a densely packed auditorium full of people with burning sensation in their eyes and on their skin, crying, shouting, coughing, vomiting and running around in panic for an exit or relief and you know that this isn't the place to be!
+1. I never understood why CS is legal to use (and own in some countries) while being banned by the UN in war as a chemical weapon. Admittedly, I actually never understood war regulations at all...More
@Jori, without CS in the hands of the militias who think of themselves as policemen, the mafias who construe the elaborate systems we live in would have no means to keep the few thousand people in each country who see through it all from putting them all in jail, and bringing the systems back to serving honest citizens.More
Admittedly, I had to smile when I first read your question.
Unfortunately, the effect for people exposed to both agents is not comparable to hearing a joke and a sad story at the same time. There is no cuteness in that.
Flooding an enclosed space with $\ce{N2O}$ is not a good idea! $\ce{N2O}$ is an interesting drug, used for sedation in dentistry. Here, a mixture of $\ce{N2O}$ and oxygen is fed to the patient through a nose mask, while the patient can freely exhale. Note that $\ce{N2O}$ apparently isn't metabolized, but just exhaled.
Feeding a heavier-than-air gas to a room without proper fresh air supply and circulation will lead to accumulation of this gas. Whether this could lead to (cerebral) hypoxia and permanent damages is open to calculation.
The use of CS in enclosed spaces is even worse. It is actually considered a chemical weapon, banned from war zones and only used in civil riot control. Oh, the irony! Note that it actually isn't a gas but a solid, dispersed either in solution or from granades. It is a strong irritant to all mucuous membranes and the skin.
Now imagine a densely packed auditorium full of people with burning sensation in their eyes and on their skin, crying, shouting, coughing, vomiting and running around in panic for an exit or relief and you know that this isn't the place to be!
Admittedly, I had to smile when I first read your question.
Unfortunately, the effect for people exposed to both agents is not comparable to hearing a joke and a sad story at the same time. There is no cuteness in that.
Flooding an enclosed space with $\ce{N2O}$ is not a good idea! $\ce{N2O}$ is an interesting drug, used for sedation in dentistry. Here, a mixture of $\ce{N2O}$and oxygen is fed to the patient through a nose mask, while the patient can freely exhale. Note that $\ce{N2O}$ apparently isn't metabolized, but just exhaled.
Feeding a heavier-than-air gas to a room without proper fresh air supply and circulation will lead to accumulation of this gas. Whether this could lead to (cerebral) hypoxia and permanent damages is open to calculation.
The use of CS in enclosed spaces is even worse. It is actually considered a chemical weapon, banned from war zones and only used in civil riot control. Oh, the irony! Note that it actually isn't a gas but a solid, dispersed either in solution or from granades. It is a strong irritant to all mucuous membranes and the skin.
Now imagine a densely packed auditorium full of people with burning sensation in their eyes and on their skin, crying, shouting, coughing, vomiting and running around in panic for an exit or relief and you know that this isn't the place to be!
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