Nitrous Oxide Vapor Monitor

Nitrous Oxide Vapor Monitor

  • $45.00


General

Nitrous Oxide Vapor Monitor can be worn as a badge near the breathing zone to measure personal exposure, or placed in a room to measure area concentration.

Workplace Exposure Monitoring

Measurement of personal exposure is very easy. Clip the monitoring badge near the breathing zone of the worker. Record the start time and the stop time of the test on the pouch of the badge and return it to the laboratory for analysis in the mailer provided. The analysis report will show the average concentration of the worker’s personal exposure level.

According to OSHA regulations, each person who uses a toxic gas as a regular part of their job must have their exposure monitored periodically.

Indoor Air Monitoring

Place or hang the badge in your home for 24 hours. Record the start and stop times and send the badge back to the laboratory for analysis in the mailer provided. The analysis report explains if the concentration level of your home is exceeding the exposure limit.

Nitrous Oxide is a colorless gas at room temperature with a slight metallic scent and sweet-taste.  It is used as an anesthetic and is also known as "laughing gas".

Observe strict safety precautions and have a properly ventilated work-space.

Sources/Uses
  • used as an anesthetic

Exposure Limits

  • OSHA PEL: not determined at this time
  • NIOSH REL: Ca TWA 25 ppm or 46 mg/m3
  • 8 hr TWA: 50 ppm (American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists)

Health effects

  • Can impair decision making process
  • Higher concentrations can cause loss of consciousness
  • Non-flammable gas, but container might combust if heated

Additional Resources

Sold individually, as a pack of 5, or a pack of 10
All purchases include analysis and report from our accredited Industrial Hygiene laboratory

Principle of Operation

Air diffuses through a micro-porous membrane and collects vapor on special prepared adsorbents inside the monitoring badge.

OSHA NIOSH ACGIH
TWA (PPM) 25 during time of use  50
STEL/CEIL (PPM)

 

AKA  Nitrous
 CAS#  10024-97-2
 ANALYTICAL METHOD NIOSH 6600
ABSORBENT  Molecular Sieves
MINIMUM LEVEL OF QUANTITATION PPM for 8 Hours
PPM for 15 Minutes
PPM for 24 Hours
 RECOMMENDED SAMPLING TIME  Workplace: 30 minutes to 8 hours
Indoor Air: 24 hours – 48 hours
 INTERFERENCES  No interferences are known
 EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE  Less than 10% for each 10°C variation from 24°C
 EFFECT OF HUMIDITY  No effects detected at 30% RH to 92% RH.
 ACCURACY  Meets or exceeds OSHA accuracy requirements of +/- 25%
 STORAGE CONDITIONS  Store at room temperature.
 RECOMMENDED HOLDING TIME Monitors need to be returned to Lab within two weeks after sampling.