Grrl Power #1228 - NO2 you don't!

Thank you for the support! You guys are awesome!

There's a fair bit of disagreement as to what would really happen if Sydney pulled her little stunt IRL. For instance, turning all the Oxygen into Nitrogen, well, first off, is she turning O, or O2, or is she breaking up CO2 into C1 and two O1's or one O2? The atmosphere doesn't usually have a lot of free-range O1 floating about. Pure Nitrogen will either bond with other N's to become N2, and the stuff at the edges of the transformed area would likely become NO2, which I believe is your basic laughing gas/whippet fuel. Also N is lighter than O, so it even without wind, Sydney's transformation zone wouldn't stay put for too long, though the difference isn't so much that you'd suddenly get a bunch of swirling wind. Maybe a breeze.

Also, "The Bends" only occurs under pressure, just breathing a bunch of nitrogen at one atmosphere would likely just make you dizzy and pass out. I don't know what the exact procedure was in that execution in Alabama, but no way should it take 22 minutes for someone to suffocate. I assume venting the room and replacing the O2 with N2 took the bulk of the time, which IMO probably negates any arguments about this method being humane. I can only imagine a 1790's French Revolutionary watching all this through a time portal, leaning on his guillotine, shaking his head. I'm not suggesting we reintroduce the guillotine or anything, only that those definitely takes less than 22 minutes to kill someone.

Anyway, I'll leave the exact science behind Sydney's nitro-stunt intentionally slightly vague, because 1) I myself don't know exactly what would happen, and 2) That way I can't be too wrong about it.  :D

Sydney's being glum because the EMS guy probably gave her an earful, and also she thought she'd come up with "that one trick supervillains hate." I mean, she has... just, she probably shouldn't deploy it too often.