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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 95 11:58:42 EST
From: john 015 <CC015012@BR*.br*.ed*>
Subject: Re: nitrox stickers
To: techdiver@terra.net

>Posted on 13 Nov 1995 at 10:21:41 by Bob Talbot

>Is air at 300 bar any less dangerous (from the explosion and dirty
>cylinder viewpoint) than 31.5% O2 nitrox at 200 bar? [ie assumes the
>pO2s identical]

Most [all?] chemical reactions run at rates given by the product of
the concentrations of the constituents.  The implied assumption in
the quoted text (above) is correct as far as I can see.  Now there
could be differences in details involving the fill but that was not
an issue here.

john

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