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Is Compressed Air Safe To Breath?

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Is Compressed Air Safe To Breath? Compressed air gets used across a range of industries to provide respiratory protection. It’s used in applications where the risk of breathing ambient air is too high to mitigate using half or full-face respirators. But it is not safe to breathe the compressed air directly following compression. What happens

How Has Discovering Oxygen Shaped Health Care?

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How Has Discovering Oxygen Shaped Health Care? Oxygen is an essential medicine used to care for patients at all levels of the healthcare system, including in surgery, trauma, heart failure, asthma, pneumonia and maternal and child care. Pneumonia alone accounts for 800 000 deaths per year. How does oxygen impact people’s lives? Most living things