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A small batch of ammonium nitrate was isolated from a fertilizer. Dry sample was placed in a small Erlenmeyer flask carefully heated over a steel mesh. The salt melts and decomposes to form water vapor and nitrous oxide which was then washed with regular water and collected in beakers.
Oxidative properties of nitrous oxide are shown on a glowing wooden stick, burning sulphur, ethanol and propanone applied on cotton, and steel wool.

If you lack laboratory skills and are not familiar with the dangers of this experiment, please DO NOT attempt to reproduce it. Do not heat ammonium nitrate, do not heat fertilizers, and do not inhale the gases. It's very easy to get a corrosive mixture containing nitrogen dioxide which can cause delayed pulmonary edema.
Larger amounts of the heated salt can experience a runaway reaction, leading to a detonation.
This experiment does not show the safety measures, but that doesn't mean there were none.