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  • Technus@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    My first thought was “why is nitrogen dangerous?” but I was thinking about it at room temperature or around 20C.

    I know about decompression sickness (the bends) but I wouldn’t expect that to be a problem at 1 atmosphere. Then I stumbled upon isobaric counterdiffusion and I wondered if that could happen from pumping any pure gas into the rectum at atmospheric pressure, since it’d be at a higher partial pressure than any gas in the tissue.

    • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      6 months ago

      Yeah I think gasses in the rectum have several severe issues that liquids don’t have. Mostly because liquids don’t exert pressure. Could get pretty in-depth.