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Subject: Tissue Solubility
From: JORGE REY - UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA <JRR%vero@gn*.if*.uf*.ed*>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 08:41:18 -0500 (EST)

In the Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving (PADI 1993) a statement is made
that "tissue of a high solubility allows more molecules of a gas to
dissolve within it to achieve the SAME pressure as that of a tissue of 
lower solubilty" (p 1-43, emphasis mine).  Is this statement correct?  It
seems that if different gas volumes are dissolved the resultant pressure
would be different.  I always thought that differences in solubility
affected rates rather than final pressures.

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