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Old 09-24-09 | 02:44 PM
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From: Dante's Third Ring
Originally Posted by neil0502
I've been using NO2 for my tires.

No you haven't. NO2 (technically N2O4) is Nitrogen Dioxide - a reddish-yellow gas that can kill you with one breath. A leak of this insidious poison did in 3 Soviet Cosmonauts some years back. They had just returned to Earth. When the ground-crew opened the capsule - all 3 were dead as doornails.

It is used as a rocket-fuel. Inhaled, it causes your lungs to fill with Nitric Acid and water - and you drown.
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