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At 05:42 PM 8/8/96 -1000, you wrote: > >Chris, > >It was my understanding that O2 was thought to be roughly twice the >theoretical narcotic potency of N2 based on lipid solubility - but your >message suggests otherwise. What is the relative lipid solubility of O2 >with respect to N2? Why did that paper on O2 narcosis suggest the >theoretical potency was twice N2? Another parameter besides lipid solubility? > > > >Aloha, >Rich > We started out using the Lipid solubilities in the beginning to create our END forumlas.. From there we moved over to Equivilent Narcotic Potencies as listed in the latest edition of Diving Physiology. The argument as to whether O2 IS or is NOT Narcotic is still up in the air. For Abyss, when the user decides to make O2 Narcotic we choose to make it equi-potent to N2. (Heaven knows this caused enough confusion, if we made it 2x of N2's narcotic potency, we might push the users a bit too far <G>) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christopher M. Parrett, President Abysmal Diving Inc. 6595 Odell Place, Suite G. Boulder CO, 80301 USA Makers of ABYSS, Advanced Dive Planning Software. Phone: (303) 530-7248 Fax: (303) 530-2808 File Transfer Site: ftp://ftp.abysmal.com/pub/abysmal FLASH! we now have our own WWW Server online World Wide Web Site: http://www.abysmal.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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