A colorless, odorless gas, Nitrogen is a non-hydrocarbon inert gas used for a variety of functions in the drilling, workover and completion phases of oil and gas wells, as well as in pigging and ...

Aside from the US, the few countries who execute prisoners typically do so by hanging, beheading or firing squad (Getty) The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your ...

One of Alabama’s largest suppliers of gas won’t supply nitrogen to the state’s prison system for nitrogen hypoxia executions. Airgas, which was acquired by French-owned Air Liquide in 2016, is the ...

High-purity inert gases, including nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and argon are vital to safeguarding sensitive compounds within the pharmaceutical supply chain. From start-ups to full-scale production, ...

After an ongoing shortage of execution drugs that has left states scrambling, Oklahoma authorities have announced that it will use nitrogen gas to execute death-row inmates. Death by nitrogen ...

A federal judge heard arguments regarding the use of nitrogen gas for execution in Alabama, with diverging views on its humaneness and risks. Kenneth Eugene Smith, convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire ...

Oklahoma plans to resume executions by using nitrogen or another gas to starve an inmate of oxygen because it cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections, state officials said on Wednesday.

Nitrogen is the fifth most abundant element in the Universe. It constitutes 78% of Earth's air. In the form of gas, it is colourless, odourless and generally considered as an inert gas. In the form of ...

The discovery of non-cyanobacteria diazotrophs underneath Arctic sea ice could change our understanding of the food web, as ...

Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions has re-introduced the Maritime Protection nitrogen inert gas system with significant functionality improvements designed to provide efficient performance and a longer ...

Alabama is readying an untried method of execution to carry out its death sentences – nitrogen hypoxia. The state approved the method in 2018, but it has not yet been used or tested. The man awaiting ...

A man who murdered a woman during a gas station robbery will be put to death in Alabama with nitrogen gas. The execution of Geoffrey Todd West, 50, is scheduled for Thursday night at south Alabama’s ...