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Nitrogen is an inert gas and is not necessary for breathing. Oxygen on the other hand is quite necessary. Without a sufficient partial pressure of oxygen in your breathing mix, you will become unconscious and if it is low enough, you can even die. For certain types of dives, nitrogen is reduced and sometimes completely removed from the breathing mix due to its narcotic effects at higher partial pressures. Dives have been done with helium and even hydrogen as substitutes for the nitrogen in the breathing mix due to their reduced narcotic effects at higher partial pressures. Not all insert gases work well though. Some are even more narcotic than nitrogen (e.g. argon, xenon).
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How do we get nitrogen with out breathing it in?
We get nitrogen in a usable form from our food.
Nitrogen is a necessary ingredient of what?
Nitrogen is a necessary ingredient of ____.
Why nitrogen is harmful?
it can displace oxygen which stops you breathing
How do humans add nitrogen to the atmosphere?
by breathing co2 back into the air. Therfore magically making it nitrogen.
How are carbon and nitrogen atoms alike?
Both are necessary for life
What is nitrogen necessary for?
Nitrogen is necessary for life on earth. Without nitrogen, which makes up some 78% of the earth's atmosphere, we would be breathing in nearly pure oxygen and that would be fatal.
How do we get nitrogen with out breathing it in?
We get nitrogen in a usable form from our food.
How do animals get their nitrogen they need?
well, herbivores eat plants (which have nitrogen in them due to help from nitrogen fixating bacteria) then other animals eat herbivores. Since animals are heterotrophs they have to get their nutrients from other organisms.
Nitrogen is a necessary ingredient of what?
Nitrogen is a necessary ingredient of ____.
Do you need nitrogen for iron to rust?
Nitrogen is not necessary.
If you breathe in pure nitrogen what will happen?
Nitrogen is an inert gas. over 70% of the air you are breathing right now is nitrogen, so nothing. Breathing pure nitrogen would be bad only because theres no oxygen in it. breathing pure nitrogen you would lose conciousness from lack of oxygen within seconds and eventually die, because your organism has no use for it and it's same as breathing nothing and dying because of lack of oxygen.
What process supplies animals and fungi with nitrogen?
Breathing.
How is nitrogen poisonous to humans?
Breathing 100% of it... No oxygen...
Why nitrogen is harmful?
it can displace oxygen which stops you breathing
Is breathing nitrogen painful?
No. You breathe nitrogen with every breath you take. It is 78% of Earth's atmosphere.
Is the Agonal breathing detector is necessary when uncertain breathing or ineffective breathing is associated with unconsciousness?
true
How do humans add nitrogen to the atmosphere?
by breathing co2 back into the air. Therfore magically making it nitrogen.
