Sodium azide tablets are stacked in five cm diameter metal canisters inside airbags. The driver-side airbag can is about 3.8cm long and holds about 50 grams of sodium azide. The passenger-side airbag can is about 15cm long and holds about 200 grams to inflate a bag big enough to fill the front-seat passenger area.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s114815.htm (http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s114815.htm)
200 grams!! drool... :P
!!! Reference, or personal experience?
Both:
see Post 435713 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=6128.msg43571300#msg43571300)
(nitroglycerin: "sodium azide", Chemicals & Equipment)
J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 347.
http://bhs.smuhsd.org/science-dept/bhschemistry/bhschempdf/bhschemanspdf/gasans/gasws7key.pdf (http://bhs.smuhsd.org/science-dept/bhschemistry/bhschempdf/bhschemanspdf/gasans/gasws7key.pdf)
+ others sites i didnt refound by googling ten minutes.
Also i personally dismantled a passenger side airbag, it contained 420g of the airbag mixture in 14 x 30g pieces, mainly NaN3, with SiO2, KNO3, some color and a binder.
A passenger on i have too, but i still dont have dismantled it as it is a nice piece of hardware to have around.
Otherwise, hydrazine and an alkyl nitrite will easily and cheaply make sodium azide, i have some synth around, or simply interested people can look in any inorganic synthesis book, as maybe it is not very wise to share that kind of info as someone could bee dumb enough to add acid on it or mix with silver nitrate, mercury, lead or copper, or simply dump it in metal pipes (a not so uncommon cause of explosion in biochemical lab). It is possible to destroy the azide with an excess nitrite solution, then acidifying, UTFG and beeware!
apparently sodium azide could also be used as a source of sodium metal via decomposition.
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=0008ACD8-5AF8-1C72-9EB7809EC588F2D7 (http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=0008ACD8-5AF8-1C72-9EB7809EC588F2D7)
although finding a way to safely decompose it, and collect the sodium metal might be tricky.
NaN3 is definitly used in the lab and agriculture as a broad spectrum biocide, but ive yet to determine how easily obtained it is for these purposes, or how feasible it would be to extract these biocides.