Help with scuba project and gas laws!?
What gas law would go with each of these that deal with scuba diving: would any be dalton's law, charles law, or boyles law
1. the bends
2. air embolisms
3. oxygen toxicity
Wouldn't the bends and air embolisms be the same thing? At greater depth, the higher pressure increases the solubility of gas in your bloodstream. Rapidly ascending decreases the solubility of the gas and bubbles form in your blood stream. This is Henry's law.
Oxygen toxicity occurs if you go to depth with a mixture with the same amount of oxygen as we breathe on the surface, I think. At depth, you have to breathe a higher pressure of air, so there are more moles of oxygen in each volume than at the surface. This causes too much oxygen in the blood. I suppose this could be interpreted as an example of Boyle's law, which states that at a higher pressure a gas of given mass will occupy lower volume.
WEST VANCOUVER SCUBA DIVING ACCIDENT
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