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Subject: minimum allowable ppO2
From: "A.APPLEYARD" <A.APPLEYARD@fs*.mt*.um*.ac*.uk*>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 16:47:37 GMT

  What is the minimum safe ppO2 in mixture breathing? It seems to be spoken of
as 0.2 bar, like ordinary air; but the natives of the Altiplano (high plateau)
of Peru and Bolivia live in the open 10000 or more feet above sea level and
thus live routinely on 0.5 bar of air, i.e. on 0.1 bar ppO2.

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