Re: Dense gas experiments on the Jay Leno Show last night (Wed., June 27th, 2007)
- From: Puppet_Sock <puppet_sock@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:58:01 -0700
On Jun 28, 11:04 pm, mutedHyperbole <zutalors...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jay had a physicist who demonstrated the properties of one gas whose[snip]
density exceeds air by 5x. This gas is very inert, and it is not
noxious at all. As a matter of fact, if you were to breathe it, your
voice's pitch would decrease by 2 octaves or so!
This is actually potentially quite dangerous.
Consider breathing in a bunch of this stuff, and then talking.
Hey, now your lungs are full of this gas. And it's heavier than
air, so it will tend to sit in the bottom of your lungs. Depending
on how well it mixes with the air you breathe, it may be pretty
slow at leaving. So there is a non-trivial suffocation hazard.
The general rule is, if you do this stunt, you are supposed to
park yourself upside down for a few minutes, to let the gas
out of your lungs.
Socks
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