2008-08-05

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2008-08-05 07:43 pm

[local] gourmet air tasting

Nitrogen makes up almost 80% of the atmosphere, with oxygen taking 20% and everything else totalling to a couple of a percent.   The nitrogen is mostly inert, so you can replace it with another mostly inert gas, say, helium. 

If you then filled a large enclosed space up with this mix, say, a sealed mattress bag, you could sit in there and breathe it for 10 minutes with no ill effects.  You would, however, sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks the entire time. 

[personal profile] savorie and I did this last weekend, and it was gobs of fun.  However, I have a lot left over, so let me know if you want to try it.  I have to give the tank back by Thursday, so we'd have to do it either tonight, or very late tomorrow night.