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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 19:41:29 -0400
To: "Peter N.R. Heseltine" <heseltin@hs*.us*.ed*>, techdiver@terra.net
From: alex1@ac*.di*.ne* (Alex Varouxis)
Subject: Re: Which Oxygen?

When using O2 as a welding gas or a cutting gas the O2 needs to be as pure
as possible. A decrease as low as 1% can cut the efficiency by as much as 25 %.

Regards Alex

At 12:45 PM 6/25/96 -0700, Peter N.R. Heseltine wrote:
>I can understand that a single manufacturer (US or UK) who supplies
>industry and medical O2 would have a single production line for both and
>the same standards on purity and extraneous gasses. But why would
>someone who only supplies O2 for welding bother to keep carbon monoxide
>out of the gas? It seems that this could be big trouble for the diver in
>some locations?
>
>-ph
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