Curiousity question about Nitrogen
 

I went to the gas station to pick up my morning Monster drink ( I know, they're bad... ) anyway I saw a can I had never seen before, so I picked it up and took a look.

Apparently instead of carbonated water they use Nitrogenated water... I tried to look up what nitrogen does in the body, but the only thing I could find were some Yahoo Answers pages.

I do realize that air is predominately nitrogen... but I was curious if anyone knew anything about drinking it?

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We breath air and about 78% is nitrogen.
It will not hurt you...

Just don't drink it if saturation diving..

Or going on a spacewalk.

Just saying...

:yes:

Re: Curiousity question about Nitrogen
 

I was going more for the ingestion angle... I figured it didn't hurt me :-)

the can also mentioned whip-its... which I can say I've never tried... so if anyone can chime in?

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Forget the Nitrogen....it's the sugar that will kill you.


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Whip-its contain nitrous oxide N2O,not nitrogen (N2). I've never understood why it is used as the propellant in whipped cream. N2 is biologically inert at atmospheric pressures.

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Oh I know... but damn they taste good. :-D

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Wikipedia

The gas is approved for use as a food additive (also known as E942), specifically as an aerosol spray propellant. Its most common uses in this context are in aerosol whipped cream canisters, cooking sprays, and as an inert gas used to displace bacteria-inducing oxygen when filling packages of potato chips and other similar snack foods.

The gas is extremely soluble in fatty compounds. In aerosol whipped cream, it is dissolved in the fatty cream until it leaves the can, when it becomes gaseous and thus creates foam. Used in this way, it produces whipped cream four times the volume of the liquid, whereas whipping air into cream only produces twice the volume. If air were used as a propellant, oxygen would accelerate rancidification of the butterfat; nitrous oxide inhibits such degradation. Carbon dioxide cannot be used for whipped cream because it is acidic in water, which would curdle the cream and give it a seltzer-like 'sparkling' sensation.

However, the whipped cream produced with nitrous oxide is unstable, and will return to a more or less liquid state within half an hour to one hour. Thus, the method is not suitable for decorating food that will not be immediately served. Similarly, cooking spray, which is made from various types of oils combined with lecithin (an emulsifier), may use nitrous oxide as a propellant; other propellants used in cooking spray include food-grade alcohol and propane.

Users of nitrous oxide often obtain it from whipped cream dispensers that use nitrous oxide as a propellant (see above section), for recreational use as a euphoria-inducing inhalant drug. It is non-harmful in small doses, but risks due to lack of oxygen do exist (see Recreational use below).

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It's an excellent and (comparitively) safe fun drug, whippets were all over the place at the last camping/music/car show I went to. Put it into a balloon, inhale, hold, exhale, laugh like an idiot for a while.
A girl I was with kept complaining that it did nothing for her, until I told her to hold it in as long as possible.
She said "It's still not worki..." before falling backwards into the mud in hysterical laughter. They were her last pair of clean jeans.
5 minutes later she was a bit annoyed. :D

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I used to brew my own beer. When carbonating the beer (artificially, like most cheap beers) you have to chill the liquid to 40 degrees then put 40 PSI CO2
to the vessel-it starts to "sing" to you as you agitate it.The beer absorbs the CO2.
Now, beers like Guiness Stout all are carbonated with nitrogen.In fact, should you want to put the tiniest bubbles that hang for a long time, and increase the body use nitrogen.I had made a holiday beer one year (lots of fruit and spices)
and after carbonating with nitrogen,I could lay a penny on the head of the beer.
Nitrogen excellent for shooting into your emergency food containers for long term food storage.CO2 fine also,but alittle mor acidic and may impart an off taste.Carbonated water has no shelf life,do not know if nitrogenated water has the same longevity.