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A gas duster, also known as tinned wind, compressed air, or canned air, is a product used for cleaning or dusting electronic equipment and other sensitive devices that cannot be cleaned using water. This type of product is most often packaged as a can that, when a trigger is pressed, blasts a stream of compressed gas through a nozzle at the top.
In physiology, body water is the water content of an animal body that is contained in the tissues, the blood, the bones and elsewhere. The percentages of body water contained in various fluid compartments add up to total body water (TBW). This water makes up a significant fraction of the human body, both by weight and by volume.
Fluid balance is an aspect of the homeostasis of organisms in which the amount of water in the organism needs to be controlled, via osmoregulation and behavior, such that the concentrations of electrolytes (salts in solution) in the various body fluids are kept within healthy ranges.
Liquified petroleum gas including propane and butane is sometimes used. These all may also be used as a topical anesthetic , due to the numbing effect of cold, though there is risk of frostbite . Cold sprays are sometimes used to carefully freeze and kill attached ticks , with successful application often resulting in the dead tick falling off.
Gas dusters often use a bitterant to discourage inhalant abuse, although this can cause problems for legitimate users. The bitterant not only leaves a bitter flavor in the air, but also leaves a bitter residue on objects, like screens and keyboards, that may transfer to hands and cause problems (such as when eating).
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. private payrolls increased at a moderate pace in November, while annual wages for workers staying in their jobs edged up for the first time in 25 months.
Gas engines are built to take in air and gas, and sucking in water is usually catastrophic. ... Sanchez said it would take about an hour and $500 to do that. In other cases, the water seeps in too ...
There have been 17 fatalities related to the use of laughing gas in the UK between 2006 and 2012.