Misc Difference between Airduster and N2O.

[sean107]

I was just curious as to weather anyone thought there was a difference in a high off N2O and the high off airduster?
Feel free to move if in the wrong place, I didn't put it in the psych. thread because I don't count it as a psychedelic really.

 

[Vader]

There is a difference. The only thing that the two really have in common is that they are gases. Nitrous oxide is a dissociative, and its effects are due to its properties as a NMDA antagonist, whereas duster (and other volatile organic solvents) are primarily GABAergic depressants.

 

[muvolution]

"airduster" is full of flourocarbons and industrial chemicals, N2o is a pure, odorless, colorless gas.

 

[sekio]

Yeah, "air duster" is usually tetrafluoroethane or other fluorocarbons. It's not exactly a safe and healthy thing to be inhaling and can cause cardiac damage. ("Sudden sniffer's death")

Nitrous oxide is physiologically a lot safer because its not a freezing liquid when it's coming out of the can (usually), nor does it have the same impact on cardiac conduction. About the worst I've heard of happening with it is asphyxiation or B12 depletion. The former is easily prevented by not wiring people up to gas tanks and the latter is easily prevented with B12 supplements.

From what I've heard, sniffing solvents e.g. halocarbons is a lot more of a "scattered"/delerious trip than nitrous, which is actually psychedelic.

Closing this thread because it's answered.