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  2. Effects of high altitude on humans - Wikipedia

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    The temperature effects and their mitigation are not inherently different from temperature effects from other causes, but the effects of temperature and pressure are cumulative. The temperature of the atmosphere decreases by a lapse rate, mostly caused by convection and the adiabatic expansion of air with decreasing pressure. [44] At the peak ...

  3. Oxygen–hemoglobin dissociation curve - Wikipedia

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    Increase in temperature shifts the oxygen dissociation curve to the right. When temperature is increased keeping the oxygen concentration constant, oxygen saturation decreases as the bond between oxygen and iron gets denatured. Additionally, with increased temperature, the partial pressure of oxygen increases as well.

  4. Armstrong limit - Wikipedia

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    If the cockpit lost pressure while the aircraft was above the Armstrong limit, even a positive pressure oxygen mask (shown) could not protect the pilot. At the nominal body temperature of 37 °C (99 °F), water has a vapour pressure of 6.3 kilopascals (47 mmHg); which is to say, at an ambient pressure of 6.3 kilopascals (47 mmHg), the boiling ...

  5. Bohr effect - Wikipedia

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    That is, the Bohr effect refers to the shift in the oxygen dissociation curve caused by changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide or the pH of the environment. Since carbon dioxide reacts with water to form carbonic acid, an increase in CO 2 results in a decrease in blood pH, [2] resulting in hemoglobin proteins releasing their load of ...

  6. Physiology of decompression - Wikipedia

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    At increased ambient pressures due to depth or habitat pressurisation, a diver's lungs are filled with breathing gas at the increased pressure, and the partial pressures of the constituent gases will be increased proportionately. [3] For example: At 10 meters sea water (msw) the partial pressure of nitrogen in air will be 1.58 bar. [3]

  7. Compressibility - Wikipedia

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    This pressure dependent transition occurs for atmospheric oxygen in the 2,500–4,000 K temperature range, and in the 5,000–10,000 K range for nitrogen. [ 7 ] In transition regions, where this pressure dependent dissociation is incomplete, both beta (the volume/pressure differential ratio) and the differential, constant pressure heat capacity ...

  8. Compressibility factor - Wikipedia

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    As temperature and pressure increase along the coexistence curve, the gas becomes more like a liquid and the liquid becomes more like a gas. At the critical point, the two are the same. So for temperatures above the critical temperature (126.2 K), there is no phase transition; as pressure increases the gas gradually transforms into something ...

  9. Thermal pressure - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: Thermal pressure as a function of temperature normalized to A of the few compounds commonly used in the study of Geophysics. [3]The thermal pressure coefficient can be considered as a fundamental property; it is closely related to various properties such as internal pressure, sonic velocity, the entropy of melting, isothermal compressibility, isobaric expansibility, phase transition ...