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  2. Commercial offshore diving - Wikipedia

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    Helium gas is used in breathing mixtures to reduce work of breathing and nitrogen narcosis, which would make deep diving work difficult or impossible, but the consequences include accelerated heat loss and higher risk of hypothermia, so hot-water suits are used for active warming, but they introduce a risk of heat injuries if something goes ...

  3. Helium supplies at risk from plunging oil prices – which is ...

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    Helium plays an important role in breathing devices and it mostly comes as a by-product of petroleum production. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...

  4. Breathing gas - Wikipedia

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    A breathing gas is a mixture of gaseous chemical elements and compounds used for respiration. Air is the most common and only natural breathing gas. Other mixtures of gases, or pure oxygen, are also used in breathing equipment and enclosed habitats such as scuba equipment, surface supplied diving equipment, recompression chambers, high-altitude mountaineering, high-flying aircraft, submarines ...

  5. Heliox - Wikipedia

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    Heliox is a breathing gas mixture of helium (He) and oxygen (O 2).It is used as a medical treatment for patients with difficulty breathing because this mixture generates less resistance than atmospheric air when passing through the airways of the lungs, and thus requires less effort by a patient to breathe in and out of the lungs.

  6. List of diving hazards and precautions - Wikipedia

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    Oil getting into the air and partially oxidising in the compressor cylinder, like in a diesel engine, due to worn seals and use of unsuitable oils, or an overheated compressor. [25] Adequate maintenance of the compressor. Use of correct oil rated for breathing air compressor lubrication. [25]

  7. Trimix (breathing gas) - Wikipedia

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    The helium is included as a substitute for some of the nitrogen, to reduce the narcotic effect of the breathing gas at depth and to reduce the work of breathing. With a mixture of three gases it is possible to create mixes suitable for different depths or purposes by adjusting the proportions of each gas.

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  9. Working fluid selection - Wikipedia

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    The choice of working fluids is known to have a significant impact on the thermodynamic as well as economic performance of the cycle. A suitable fluid must exhibit favorable physical, chemical, environmental, safety and economic properties such as low specific volume (high density), viscosity, toxicity, flammability, ozone depletion potential (ODP), global warming potential (GWP) and cost, as ...