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101Enriched Air Nitrox — Nitrox refers to any gas mixture composed (excluding trace gases) of nitrogen and oxygen; this includes normal air which is approximately 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, with around 1% inert gases, primarily argon.cite book |title=Bennett and… …
102Scuba diving — Not to be confused with Self contained breathing apparatus, which describes breathing sets used out of water. Scuba diver Scuba diving ( SCUBA originally being an acronym for self contained underwater breathing apparatus, now widely considered a… …
103Breathing gas — is a mixture of gaseous chemical elements and compounds used for respiration. Air is the most common and only natural breathing gas. Other artificial gases, either pure gases or mixtures of gases, are used in breathing equipment and enclosed… …
104Equilibrium constant — For a general chemical reaction:alpha A +eta B ... ightleftharpoons sigma S+ au T ...the equilibrium constant can be defined by [F.J,C. Rossotti and H. Rossotti, The Determination of Stability Constants, McGraw Hill, 1961.] :K=frac{S ^sigma {{T^ …
105Oxygen-haemoglobin dissociation curve — The oxygen haemoglobin dissociation curve plots the proportion of hemoglobin in its saturated form on the vertical axis against the prevailing oxygen tension on the horizontal axis. The oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve is an important tool for… …
106List of diving hazards and precautions — Contents 1 Effects of relying on breathing equipment while underwater 2 Effects of barotrauma or pressure damage 2.1 …
107Hypoxia (medical) — Hypoxia ICD 9 799.02 MeSH D000860 Hypoxia, or hypoxiation, is a pathological condition in which the body as a whole (generalized hypoxia) or a region of the body (tissue hypoxia) is deprived of adequate ox …
108Henry's law — may sometimes refer to Lenz s Law In chemistry, Henry s law is one of the gas laws, formulated by William Henry. It states that:: At a constant temperature, the amount of a given gas dissolved in a given type and volume of liquid is directly… …
109gas — gasless, adj. /gas/, n., pl. gases, v., gassed, gassing. n. 1. Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid. 2. any such fluid or mixture of fluids. 3. any… …
110Discontinuous gas exchange — Contents 1 Phases 1.1 Closed phase 1.2 Flutter phase 1.3 Ope …
