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Q: Why do rockets need to take their own supply of oxygen?
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How does perfluorooctyl bromide supply oxygen to tissues?

It has tiny nanites in it that replace all the blood in a person's body. Unfortunately, the nanites soon develop conciousness, and take over the host.


How much do you breathe in and breathe out for oxygen?

the air is a mixture mainly of Nitrogen, around 80%, and a mixture of other gases including Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide (CO2). Only the oxygen is required for human breathing purposes, so you take in about 5 times the quantity of air as you need in order to get your oxygen supply. When the oxygen is used for 'internal combustion by the body's muscles, the by product is carbon dioxide which becomes part of the air you breath out. Plants don't actually breath but absorb CO2 in the process of photosynthesis, which requires light to operate, at which point the plant will release oxygen, but during the dark hours, it uses oxygen and puts out CO2.


How is oxygen replenished in nature?

Plants take in carbon dioxide then when they take that they give off oxygen


A candle is covered with a flask and the flame goes out why?

When the candle flame is covered with a flask, it creates a closed system where the oxygen supply is limited. The flame requires oxygen to sustain combustion, so when the available oxygen is used up, the flame goes out. The process is known as oxygen depletion, and it happens when the flammable material (wax) fails to receive sufficient oxygen to continue burning.


Do virus take any oxygen?

No, viruses do not require oxygen.

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Why do space rockets have to carry a supply of oxygen?

In space there is no oxygen. Space is a vacuum. All things like a rocket going to space, require a fuel to burn, oxygen and a heater. Since there is no oxygen is space they need to provide it for them. Meaning the reaction can take place correctly.


Why do rockets engines in space have to carry their own oxygen?

Fire needs oxygen in order to burn, and there is no oxygen in space, so rockets must take oxygen with them.


What gases do rockets use when they take off?

they are hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen


Where do fireworks and space rockets get their oxygen from?

They take it with them in some form or another. Fireworks use oxidizing salts such as various nitrates and chlorates. Solid fuel rockets generally use ammonium perchlorate as an oxidizer while liquid fuel rockets carry liquid oxygen.


Trees need some oxygen to grow. Do they take in some through the air or do they take it in through the soil via water?

The leaves supply almost all of the oxygen, so through the air.


How does aquatic life take its oxygen supply?

It takes in water (which has oxygen in it) through the gills, takes out the oxygen, and then uses it.


Does trachea take in oxygen?

Neither trachea nor bronchial tree take in any oxygen from the air. It gets oxygen via blood supply.


Why do rockets take off?

Rockets take off to carry things (called payloads) into space. Do you mean 'how' do rockets take off, or how do rockets work?


Do oysters need oxygen to breathe?

fishes take in water and remove oxygen from it.....thats how they breathe....


Why will a rocket work in space where there is not enough air for other vehicles to operate?

Vehicles such as airplanes and cars rely on oxygen from the air to burn their fuel. Rockets take the oxygen with them.


Why do astronauts take oxygen with them into space?

Liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen are carried on board in two systems of pressurized tanks. The cabin pressurization system combines the gases in the correct mixture at normal atmospheric pressure. While in orbit, only one oxygen system and one nitrogen system are used to pressurize the orbiter. During launch and landing, both systems of each gas are used. For more info about the space shuttle, see the Related Link below.


How do rockets off?

rockets take off when gases are shot out of the opposite direction with great force. The gases are conctrated by being forced through a small nozzle Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen is the fuel.