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An air-filled tire is a light-weight construction element that also provides some damping and an easily adjustable amount of deformation to get the required footprint and required traction dependent on the surface conditions. Other gasses could be used instead, but air is easily available.
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What are some things air is used for?
Air is used to inflate tyres , power air-tools , sustain life,
What type of gas is in a car wheel?
Air is normally used to inflate car tyres, sometimes just nitrogen is used.
What is used to inflate tires?
Mostly 'air' is used to pumb up tyres however sometimes nitrogen gas is used as it is deemed safer because it excludes the oxygen.
Why inflate nitrogen dioxide to tire?
it helps with keeping the tyres inflated.
What is the antonym for inflate?
The antonym of "inflate" is "deflate", if used to mean 'fill with air'. If 'inflate' is used as a meaning of 'exaggerate', then the antonym would be 'understate'.
To fill with air?
To fill with air is to inflate
What goes in a tire?
Air or nitrogen is used to inflate tires
Gas put in tires of racing cars?
nitrogeon is used to inflate race car tyres due to the consistent tyre pressure throughout different tempertures.
Why is hydrogen used to inflate hot air balloons?
Hydrogen is not used to inflate hot air balloons. Just regular air is used which is then heated to make the balloon more buoyant as hot air weighs less than cold air. Hence the name hot air balloons.
What inflates its body with air when its threatened?
Blowfish/pufferfish inflate with water when underwater, but inflate with air when removed from that environment.
How do you inflate a balloon without air?
Inflate it with water.
Would a tire work with no air in it?
Normal pneumatic tyres do not work correctly without air. Run flat tyres do, so do solid tyres.
