You have completed several dives using SCUBA apparatus and are ready for a deep dive in seawater. You have arranged to have tanks of heliox prepared for your dive. Heliox is a mixture of helium and oxygen. Oxygen at pressures much greater than 1 atm is toxic to lung cells, so you want partial pressure of a gas in a mixture is the pressure the gas would have if it existed by itself in the same volume. Dalton's law of partial pressures tells us that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the individual gases. (The density of seawater is 1,030 kg/m. Assume the air pressure at sea level is 1 atm.) keep the partial pressure of oxygen from your diving equipment at 1 atm or less during your dive. You will be diving at a depth of h= 41.8 m. What ratio of helium to oxygen, by weight, should you request for the mixtures in your tanks? The WHe - 0.77 Wo

You have completed several dives using SCUBA apparatus and are ready for a deep dive in seawater. You have arranged to have tanks of heliox prepared for your dive. Heliox is a mixture of helium and oxygen. Oxygen at pressures much greater than 1 atm is toxic to lung cells, so you want partial pressure of a gas in a mixture is the pressure the gas would have if it existed by itself in the same volume. Dalton's law of partial pressures tells us that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the individual gases. (The density of seawater is 1,030 kg/m. Assume the air pressure at sea level is 1 atm.) keep the partial pressure of oxygen from your diving equipment at 1 atm or less during your dive. You will be diving at a depth of h= 41.8 m. What ratio of helium to oxygen, by weight, should you request for the mixtures in your tanks? The WHe - 0.77 Wo

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Chapter16: Temperature And The Kinetic Theory Of Gases

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