Nitrox, the Glossary
Nitrox refers to any gas mixture composed (excepting trace gases) of nitrogen and oxygen.[1]
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69 relations: Acronym, Adsorption, American Academy of Underwater Sciences, American Nitrox Divers International, Argon, Atmosphere of Earth, Breathing gas, British Sub-Aqua Club, Buoyancy, Christian J. Lambertsen, Clearance diver, Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques, Decompression (diving), Decompression illness, Decompression practice, Decompression sickness, Dick Rutkowski, Dive computer, Diving air compressor, Diving cylinder, Diving equipment, Diving safety officer, Dräger (company), Electro-galvanic oxygen sensor, Equivalent air depth, European Standard, Fire, Flicker fusion threshold, Frogman, Gas blending, Gay-Lussac's law, Hazard symbol, Heliox, Helium, Henry Fleuss, High-pressure nervous syndrome, Hyperbaric treatment schedules, Hypoxia (medicine), International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers, John Morgan Wells, Maximum operating depth, Membrane gas separation, National Association of Underwater Instructors, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Nitrogen, Nitrox, Oxygen, Oxygen therapy, Oxygen toxicity, Partial pressure, ... Expand index (19 more) »
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Acronym
An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.
Adsorption
Adsorption is the adhesion of atoms, ions or molecules from a gas, liquid or dissolved solid to a surface.
American Academy of Underwater Sciences
The American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) is a group of scientific organizations and individual members who conduct scientific and educational activities underwater.
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American Nitrox Divers International
American Nitrox Divers International (or ANDI) was founded by Ed Betts and Dick Rutkowski in 1988.
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Argon
Argon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ar and atomic number 18.
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Atmosphere of Earth
The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively as air, with variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates (which create weather features such as clouds and hazes), all retained by Earth's gravity. Nitrox and atmosphere of Earth are breathing gases.
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Breathing gas
A breathing gas is a mixture of gaseous chemical elements and compounds used for respiration. Nitrox and breathing gas are breathing gases.
British Sub-Aqua Club
The British Sub-Aqua Club or BSAC has been recognised since 1954 by UK Sport as the national governing body of recreational diving in the United Kingdom.
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Buoyancy
Buoyancy, or upthrust, is a gravitational force, a net upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object.
Christian J. Lambertsen
Christian James Lambertsen (May 15, 1917 – February 11, 2011) was an American environmental medicine and diving medicine specialist who was principally responsible for developing the United States Navy frogmen's rebreathers in the early 1940s for underwater warfare.
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Clearance diver
A clearance diver was originally a specialist naval diver who used explosives underwater to remove obstructions to make harbours and shipping channels safe to navigate, but the term "clearance diver" was later used to include other naval underwater work.
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Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques
Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS) is an international federation that represents underwater activities in underwater sport and underwater sciences, and oversees an international system of recreational snorkel and scuba diver training and recognition.
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Decompression (diving)
The decompression of a diver is the reduction in ambient pressure experienced during ascent from depth.
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Decompression illness
Decompression Illness (DCI) comprises two different conditions caused by rapid decompression of the body.
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Decompression practice
To prevent or minimize decompression sickness, divers must properly plan and monitor decompression.
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Decompression sickness
Decompression sickness (DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases emerging from solution as bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression.
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Dick Rutkowski
Richard Rutkowski is a pioneer in the fields of hyperbaric medicine, diving medicine and diver training, especially in relation to the use of breathing gases.
Dive computer
A dive computer, personal decompression computer or decompression meter is a device used by an underwater diver to measure the elapsed time and depth during a dive and use this data to calculate and display an ascent profile which, according to the programmed decompression algorithm, will give a low risk of decompression sickness.
Diving air compressor
A diving air compressor is a breathing air compressor that can provide breathing air directly to a surface-supplied diver, or fill diving cylinders with high-pressure air pure enough to be used as a hyperbaric breathing gas.
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Diving cylinder
A diving cylinder or diving gas cylinder is a gas cylinder used to store and transport high pressure gas used in diving operations. Nitrox and diving cylinder are breathing gases.
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Diving equipment
Diving equipment, or underwater diving equipment, is equipment used by underwater divers to make diving activities possible, easier, safer and/or more comfortable.
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Diving safety officer
Diving safety officer (DSO) is the title held by the person who administers a United States university's research diving safety program.
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Dräger (company)
Dräger is a German company based in Lübeck which makes breathing and protection equipment, gas detection and analysis systems, and noninvasive patient monitoring technologies.
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Electro-galvanic oxygen sensor
An electro-galvanic fuel cell is an electrochemical device which consumes a fuel to produce an electrical output by a chemical reaction.
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Equivalent air depth
The equivalent air depth (EAD) is a way of approximating the decompression requirements of breathing gas mixtures that contain nitrogen and oxygen in different proportions to those in air, known as nitrox.
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European Standard
European Standards, sometimes called Euronorm (abbreviated EN, from the German name Europäische Norm, "European Norm"), are technical standards which have been ratified by one of the three European Standards Organizations (ESO): European Committee for Standardization (CEN), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), or European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
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Fire
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.
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Flicker fusion threshold
The flicker fusion threshold, also known as critical flicker frequency or flicker fusion rate, is the frequency at which a flickering light appears steady to the average human observer.
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Frogman
A frogman is someone who is trained in scuba diving or swimming underwater in a tactical capacity that includes military, and in some European countries, police work.
Gas blending
Gas blending is the process of mixing gases for a specific purpose where the composition of the resulting mixture is specified and controlled.
Gay-Lussac's law
Gay-Lussac's law usually refers to Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac's law of combining volumes of gases, discovered in 1808 and published in 1809.
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Hazard symbol
Hazard symbols or warning symbols are recognisable symbols designed to warn about hazardous or dangerous materials, locations, or objects, including electromagnetic fields, electric currents; harsh, toxic or unstable chemicals (acids, poisons, explosives); and radioactivity.
Heliox
Heliox is a breathing gas mixture of helium (He) and oxygen (O2). Nitrox and Heliox are breathing gases.
Helium
Helium (from lit) is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2.
Henry Fleuss
Henry Albert Fleuss (13 June 1851 – 6 January 1933) was a pioneering diving engineer, and Master Diver for Siebe, Gorman & Co. of London.
High-pressure nervous syndrome
High-pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS – also known as high-pressure neurological syndrome) is a neurological and physiological diving disorder which can result when a diver descends below about using a breathing gas containing helium.
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Hyperbaric treatment schedules
Hyperbaric treatment schedules or hyperbaric treatment tables, are planned sequences of events in chronological order for hyperbaric pressure exposures specifying the pressure profile over time and the breathing gas to be used during specified periods, for medical treatment.
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Hypoxia (medicine)
Hypoxia is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level.
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International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers
The International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD) is a scuba diving organization concerned with certification and training in recreational diving, technical diving, cave diving, wreck diving, rebreather diving and diver leadership.
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John Morgan Wells
John Morgan Wells (April 12, 1940 - July 28, 2017) was a marine biologist, and physiologist involved in the development of decompression systems for deep diving, and the use of nitrox as a breathing gas for diving.
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Maximum operating depth
In underwater diving activities such as saturation diving, technical diving and nitrox diving, the maximum operating depth (MOD) of a breathing gas is the depth below which the partial pressure of oxygen (pO2) of the gas mix exceeds an acceptable limit. Nitrox and maximum operating depth are breathing gases.
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Membrane gas separation
Gas mixtures can be effectively separated by synthetic membranes made from polymers such as polyamide or cellulose acetate, or from ceramic materials.
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National Association of Underwater Instructors
The National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI Worldwide) is a nonprofit association of scuba instructors.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.
Nitrox
Nitrox refers to any gas mixture composed (excepting trace gases) of nitrogen and oxygen. Nitrox and nitrox are breathing gases.
Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8. Nitrox and Oxygen are breathing gases.
Oxygen therapy
Oxygen therapy, also referred to as supplemental oxygen, is the use of oxygen as medical treatment.
Oxygen toxicity
Oxygen toxicity is a condition resulting from the harmful effects of breathing molecular oxygen at increased partial pressures.
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Partial pressure
In a mixture of gases, each constituent gas has a partial pressure which is the notional pressure of that constituent gas as if it alone occupied the entire volume of the original mixture at the same temperature.
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Pennsylvanian (geology)
The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, on the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods of the Carboniferous Period (or the upper of two subsystems of the Carboniferous System).
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Physiology of decompression
The physiology of decompression is the aspect of physiology which is affected by exposure to large changes in ambient pressure.
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Pressure swing adsorption
Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) is a technique used to separate some gas species from a mixture of gases (typically air) under pressure according to the species' molecular characteristics and affinity for an adsorbent material.
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Professional Association of Diving Instructors
The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is a recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded in 1966 by John Cronin and Ralph Erickson.
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Professional diving
Professional diving is underwater diving where the divers are paid for their work.
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Professional Technical and Recreational Diving
Professional Technical and Recreational Diving (ProTec) is an international diver certification agency based in Munich, Germany.
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Recreational diving
Recreational diving or sport diving is diving for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment, usually when using scuba equipment.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.
Scuba Schools International
Scuba Schools International (SSI) is a for-profit organization that teaches the skills involved in scuba diving and freediving, and supports dive businesses and resorts.
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South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society
The South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) is a primary source of information for diving and hyperbaric medicine physiology worldwide.
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Standard diving dress
Standard diving dress, also known as hard-hat or copper hat equipment, deep sea diving suit or heavy gear, is a type of diving suit that was formerly used for all relatively deep underwater work that required more than breath-hold duration, which included marine salvage, civil engineering, pearl shell diving and other commercial diving work, and similar naval diving applications.
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Sub-Aqua Association
The Sub-Aqua Association or SAA is a diver training organization for scubadivers in the United Kingdom.
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Surface-supplied diving
Surface-supplied diving is a mode of underwater diving using equipment supplied with breathing gas through a diver's umbilical from the surface, either from the shore or from a diving support vessel, sometimes indirectly via a diving bell.
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Technical diving
Technical diving (also referred to as tec diving or tech diving) is scuba diving that exceeds the agency-specified limits of recreational diving for non-professional purposes.
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Technical Diving International
Technical Diving International (TDI) claims to be the largest technical diving certification agency in the world, and one of the first agencies to offer mixed gas and rebreather training.
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Tissue (biology)
In biology, tissue is an assembly of similar cells and their extracellular matrix from the same embryonic origin that together carry out a specific function.
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Trimix (breathing gas)
Trimix is a breathing gas consisting of oxygen, helium and nitrogen and is used in deep commercial diving, during the deep phase of dives carried out using technical diving techniques, and in advanced recreational diving. Nitrox and Trimix (breathing gas) are breathing gases.
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Underwater diving
Underwater diving, as a human activity, is the practice of descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
See also
Breathing gases
- Argox
- Atmosphere of Earth
- Breathing gas
- Cascade filling system
- Compressed air
- Diving cylinder
- Gas blending for scuba diving
- Heliox
- Helium analyzer
- Hydreliox
- Hydrox (breathing gas)
- Lean air
- Maximum operating depth
- Nitrous oxide (medication)
- Nitrox
- Oxygen
- Oxygen evolution
- Oxygen sensor
- Trimix (breathing gas)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrox
Also known as Advanced nitrox diver, EANx, Enriched Air Nitrox, Enriched-air nitrox, Nitrox diver, Nitrox production, Oxygen enriched air, SafeAir, Standard nitrox.
, Pennsylvanian (geology), Physiology of decompression, Pressure swing adsorption, Professional Association of Diving Instructors, Professional diving, Professional Technical and Recreational Diving, Recreational diving, Scuba diving, Scuba Schools International, South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society, Standard diving dress, Sub-Aqua Association, Surface-supplied diving, Technical diving, Technical Diving International, Tissue (biology), Trimix (breathing gas), Underwater diving, World War II.