What is Nitrox - Answer Gas mixture with less Nitrogen usually more Oxygen
Nitrox other names - Answer Oxygen enriched air, Enriched air nitrox, Nitrox, EANx.
"nitrox" can refer to any mixture of nitrogen and oxygen, so plain, ordinary air would be
nitrox, and in the past nitrox has even been used to refer to nitrogen-oxygen mixtures
with less oxygen than air that were used in undersea habitat diving. - Answer
Put the Historical Nitrox Events in Chronological Order - Answer
The First Diving Decompression Tables were published
NAUI sanctioned EANX Sanctioning Two Specialty Training Agencies
Others Recreational Training Agencies Advertised They Would Provide Nitrox
NAUI standardized Criteria For Enriched Air Nitrox Training and Certification
Advantages of using Nitrox Include: - Increase Bottom Times
Decrease Surface Interval
, Increase Safety Factor When Used With Air Tables
Nitrox is the same as Trimix and its used to reduce the effects of narcosis that a diver
might feel (T/F) - Answer False
All of the above are synonymous with the same breathing gas (T/F)
- EAN36
-NOAA Nitrox II
-Nitrox 36%
-36% Oxygen Mixture - Answer
Nitrox is a ____________ breathing gas - Answer Mid Range
In _____, Paul Bert established that ___________, liberated as bubbles following sudden
decompression was the cause of decompression sickness. - Answer 1878, Nitrogen
Nitrox provides the greatest advantages for dives in the __________________ depth
ranges - Answer 15-33m (50-110 ft)
Using Boyles law we can easily know that if you compared two 11 liter /80 cubic foot
scuba cylinders of different pressures to the one with double the pressure also has a
greater volume of gas, (T/F) -Answer True
Henry's Law - Solution The amount of any given gas that will dissolve in a liquid at a
given temperature is a function of the partial pressure of the gas that is in contact with
the liquid and the solubility coefficient of the gas in the particular liquid."
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