• Gas blending is the process of mixing gases for a specific purpose where the composition of the resulting mixture is specified and controlled. A wide...
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    Gas blending for scuba diving (or gas mixing) is the filling of diving cylinders with non-air breathing gases such as nitrox, trimix and heliox. Use of...
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  • Look up blending in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blending may refer to: The process of mixing in process engineering Mixing paints to achieve a greater...
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    techniques used to fill diving cylinders with gases other than air are called gas blending. Breathing gases for use at ambient pressures below normal atmospheric...
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    sometimes used on open circuit scuba, to reduce decompression obligations. Gas blending of trimix generally involves mixing helium and oxygen with air to the...
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    inexpensive gas, and blending nitrox is technologically simple, both to mix and to analyse. In the case of compressed air, or nitrox mixtures, the exhaled gas is...
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    hyperventilation, as in shallow water or deep water blackout and the choking game Inert gas asphyxiation Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, or primary alveolar...
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    Air embolism (redirect from Gas embolism)
    air embolism, also known as a gas embolism, is a blood vessel blockage caused by one or more bubbles of air or other gas in the circulatory system. Air...
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    Scuba gas management is the aspect of scuba diving which includes the gas planning, blending, filling, analysing, marking, storage, and transportation...
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    added oxygen, but also used for trimix. Gas mixture is usually continuously analysed at the exit of the blending stick to monitor composition. blind traverse...
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    understanding of gas supplies and saturation consumables, including minimum gas requirements, gas transfer pumps, gas blending, and gas reclaim systems...
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  • breathing air compressor Gas blending Gas blending for scuba diving Gas panel Gas reclaim system Gas storage bank Gas storage quad Gas storage tube Helium...
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    underwater than free divers. Although the use of compressed air is common, a gas blend with a higher oxygen content, known as enriched air or nitrox, has become...
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    breathing gases for diving. gas blending Mixing breathing gases for diving, filling diving cylinders with gas mixes such as nitrox or trimix. gas block gas embolism...
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    industrial gases, where a yellow shoulder means chlorine. Diving cylinder – Cylinder to supply breathing gas for divers Gas blending – Producing special gas mixtures...
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    The pressure that a component gas of a gas mixture would exert if it alone was present in the volume occupied by the gas mixture. partial pressure gradient...
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  • air Gas blending – Producing special gas mixtures to specification Gas blending for scuba diving – Mixing and filling cylinders with breathing gases for...
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    On Saturday, 5 November 1983, at 4:00 a.m., while drilling in the Frigg gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, four divers were in a diving...
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    breathing air compressor Gas blending Gas blending for scuba diving Gas panel Gas reclaim system Gas storage bank Gas storage quad Gas storage tube Helium...
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    Diving team (redirect from Gas man)
    A gas man, also called rack operator, is required when gas mixtures other than air are to be provided to the diver. This person controls the gas supply...
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    to external causes, when the breathing gas is hypoxic, or internal causes, such as reduced effectiveness of gas transfer in the lungs, reduced capacity...
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    breathing air compressor Gas blending Gas blending for scuba diving Gas panel Gas reclaim system Gas storage bank Gas storage quad Gas storage tube Helium...
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    Diving air compressor (category Gas compressors)
    and may be associated with gas blending equipment. Low pressure diving compressors usually supply compressed air to a gas distribution panel via a volume...
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  • Argox (redirect from Argox (breathing gas))
    oxygen, depending on its intended use. The mixture is made with the same gas blending techniques used to make nitrox, except that for argox, the argon is added...
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    also a standard first aid procedure for underwater diving incidents where gas bubble formation in the tissues is possible. Wilderness first aid is the...
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    breathing air compressor Gas blending Gas blending for scuba diving Gas panel Gas reclaim system Gas storage bank Gas storage quad Gas storage tube Helium...
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    breathing air compressor Gas blending Gas blending for scuba diving Gas panel Gas reclaim system Gas storage bank Gas storage quad Gas storage tube Helium...
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    produce air of oxygen compatible quality, usually for partial pressure gas blending. This may be built into the filling system or temporarily connected when...
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    energy (in the form of heat) and matter (solids, dissolved substances and gases) around the globe. As such, the state of the circulation has a large impact...
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  • nitrogen Gas blending – Producing special gas mixtures to specification InDEPTH (2020-03-04). "Playing with Fire: Hydrogen as a Diving Gas". InDepth...
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