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It is also used legitimately in the catering industry as a propellant in whipped cream dispensers.

They cited a citation from state workplace regulators, who wrote that “accumulated propellant” inside the shooting range posed a fire risk.

With the war in Ukraine, global demand for explosives and propellants has also been high.

Depending on the type of rocket fuel used, launches produce nitrogen oxides, chlorine, black carbon particles, water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide — and no propellant avoids creating of some kind of emissions.

Nitrous oxide also has industrial uses to increase the power of internal combustion engines, and as an aerosol propellant for foods like whipped cream.