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Oxygen is latent in the water, because the water absorbs gasses in the air, like how water absorbs sugar. Since the air (and so oxygen) is in the water, the oyster can use it.
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How does air get an underwater cave?
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A cylinder of compressed air for underwater swimming?
Don't understand
