Gas

From precious oxygen to the lowly fart, every day we’re all wallowing around in an invisible soup of gas! Exciting, isn’t it? Tune in to go into an exciting adventure into the world of gas with Sam, Ceri, and Dr. Tubeboy!

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[Trivia Question]

Horace Wells and Nitrous Oxide/Laughing Gas

https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/119/5/1014/13670/Horace-Wells-Demonstration-of-Nitrous-Oxide-in

[Fact Off]

History of the storage/transportation of gas (cylinders, gas holders, bamboo)

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/natural_gas_basics.html

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/0471238961.0701190519160509.a01

https://www.apga.org/apgamainsite/aboutus/facts/history-of-natural-gas

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24969284

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_2603

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/349362

https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/professional_theses/147/

https://www.nortegas.es/en/our-business/distribution-of-natural-gas/history-of-natural-gas/

Canaries to detect carbon monoxide in mines & resuscitating them with oxygen

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/story-real-canary-coal-mine-180961570/

[Ask the Science Couch]

Fart/flatus noises from anal sphincter

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8601379/

https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19545944/fart-noises/

https://flatology.com/consider-the-sphincter/

https://urogynecology.nm.org/anal-incontinence.html

[Butt One More Thing]

Snake cloacal popping

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/377052