Nitrous oxide is probably the most misunderstood ingredient in the modern hot rodder's cook book. Its power enhancing properties are widely recognized and debated, but the practical application of ...

Like many wonderful and useful scientific things, nitrous oxide was discovered by accident in 18th-century England, and much later (during the '30s and '40s) it was used by dentists as an anesthetic.

Squeezing. It’s the easiest way to pump power out of any engine. Squeezing. It’s slang for using nitrous oxide to enhance the performance of an engine. Squeezing. We’d all love to be able to do it but ...

Did you see "The Fast and the Furious" last summer? It was a really silly movie about drag racing rice rockets, but it made stars out of an actor called Vin Diesel and a gas called nitrous oxide. Vin ...