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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Xenon/oxygen
Message-ID: <540@bucket.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 22:40:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  6 22:40:50 1987
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<In article <18@krafla.UUCP>, frisk@krafla.UUCP (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
<> Can anyone tell me if a high-pressure mixture of xenon and oxygen would
<> be breathable.
<> 
<> The reason I am asking this is that it should be possible to create a mixture
<> with density just above that of water.

Yes, but there is one _slight_ problem. For reasons which I do not understand
Xenon is an anaesthetic(sp)!! 

I've got no idea how a noble gas can do this, but it does. Maybe someone 
out there can give us more details?

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