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Air Pollution Consequence: Quiz #D2: Composition of clean air

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#1: Identify molecules 1, 2, 3, & 4.

#2. The air you inhale has 3 molecules of carbon dioxide out of 10,000 air atoms/molecules, but the air you breathe out has 400 carbon dioxide molecules for every 10,000 air atoms/molecules. Why is that?
#3: Liquid nitrogen is used for a lot of chemistry demos. This student has just dipped a rose into liquid nitrogen. The next step is to drop the rose and watch it shatter like glass. It even kind of sounds like glass breaking. Liquid oxygen is almost the same temperature and could be used in these demos, but it's never used. Why?
#4: This is a hyperbaric oxygen pressure chamber. Instead of air, the patient is surrounded by pure oxygen at a pressure about 3 times that of normal air pressure. Since normal air is 20% oxygen, pure oxygen would be 5 times more oxygen, and at 3 times normal air pressure, a patient gets 15 times more oxygen than normal. Do a Web search and give at least 5 medical problems that hyperbaric oxygen therapy treats.

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