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From: matt@oddjob.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Xenon/oxygen
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Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 23:32:36 EDT
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In article <18@krafla.UUCP> frisk@krafla.UUCP (Fridrik Skulason) writes:

) The reason I am asking this is that it should be possible to create a mixture
) [of of xenon and oxygen] with density just above that of water.  ...
) it should be possible to float around in this.

I don't know about everyone else, but when I exhale fully, I sink.
It follows that if I inhaled something whose density was greater than
or equal to the density of water, I'd still sink.  Still, I might
have near enough to neutral bouyancy that a little helium-filled belt
could even it up.

		Matt Crawford