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Quotes About Oxide

As it turned out, the canister was filled with a substance called red mercury—also known as cinnabar—that physically resembles uranium oxide although chemically it is quite different. Red mercury has been used in nuclear scams for more than twenty-five years.
~ Lawrence Wright
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.
~ Honore de Balzac
Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to varying degrees.
~ Jamais Cascio
Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.
~ Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Dentists and surgeons frequently used nitrous oxide as an anesthetic. Travis
~ Dean Koontz