That statement was said to me today by a guy with 30yrs service with BOC (Specialist Gases Supplier).
So you breathe this gas for 5 seconds and you die? Yep!
"No smell, No physical reaction At all!

I quote " It's the ideal way to commit suicide, as there is no pain, no discomfort, Nothing. You just cease, your body stops."
This guy has had 5 cases where people has purchased cylinders of it and committed suicide!

His words not mine!
Just google NITROGEN or as we know it OFN.

Theoretically if you were pressure testing and vented off into a small area where you were. Where you replace enough oxygen, you would just DIE!
No warning no discomfort. Apparently because the atmosphere is 70% Nitrogen the body does not react to its presence. And normally the increased Co2 you are breathing in would cause physical reactions.

Nitrogen is used to Humanely kill Terminally ill animals (Vets use it).

Just google it guys!

In 40 odd years I had never considered Nitrogen to be a issue.
Yeah! I knew it was an asphyxiant, however the statement made by the guy today, caused me to look again.
I certainly did not realise you get absolutely no warning!
Apparently a Lab Technician was killed in 2009, where he entered a basement storeroom. Which had some Liquid Nitrogen that had leaked out.
HE DIED!

I think I shall start giving OFN some extra respect from now on.
Grizzly




I googled this Gas and