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The element is oxygen.

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What do humans breathe in a diving suit?

Humans breathe pure oxygen in diving suits because that is the gas humans and animals are required to have to stay alive and not suffocate. If a person scuba dives with pure oxygen they should dip a small object in ponaris and rub it on the inside of their nose so the tender skin of the inner nostril doesn't crack and bleed


How does the percentage of carbon dioxide and oxygen stay roughly the same in your atmosphere?

It is because plants take in carbon dioxide and breathe out Oxygen whereas, man and animals breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. This cycle of life maintaines a roughly same percentage of O2 and CO2 in the atmosphere.


Compounds are made up of more than one element. Which of the following represents a compound NH3 O3 N2 H2?

Since only the NH3 (ammonia) contains more than one element - in this case nitrogen (N) and hydrogen (H) that would be the compound. Ozone (O3), nitrogen (N2) and hydrogen (H2) gases are each composed of a single element (although most people are more familiar with the O2 form of oxygen since it is the one we like to breath to stay alive rather than the 03 form that hurts like crazy if you breath in much of it but protects us from UV rays by absorbing them in the upper atmosphere).


Why is Chemical Energy important?

To stay alive, cells must be able to release the chemical energy in the bonds.


What gas is it that we need to stay alive. it is also needed for burning.a burning splint will burn brightly in this gas?

Oxygen

Related questions

Which element do we have to breathe to stay alive?

We need to breathe oxygen.


Which element do you have to breathe to stay alive?

oxygen


Why is oxygen so important to human beings?

It is how we breathe and stay alive.


Why it lives in this specific climate?

to stay alive if they are out of their element they will pass


If the water is life why we drown?

We can't breathe water, but we need to drink it to hydrate and stay alive.


What living thing does mankind need to stay alive?

Plants and Algae. They convert CO2 to O2 (what we breathe).


How does nature helps us?

- tree(to breathe/stay alive) - decorations - wood/paper for work - medicine


Which element do you need from the air to stay alive?

I would say either nitrogen or oxygen.


What can people do to stay alive on the moon?

exercise


Why you respire?

People need to breathe in order to stay alive. All the cells in your body require oxygen to move, work and break down food, so without oxygen you will literally die.


What gas do people breathe in?

Mostly nitrogen (N2) and oxygen (O2) and some percent of other gases. Wrong actually we breathe in then oxygen (O2) from plants and trees and we exchange that for carbon dioxide (Co2)that helps plants stay alive as well as the sun and water.


Why was salt so important in Africa?

people needed salt to stay alive and to preserve their food people needed salt to stay alive and to preserve their food