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| Originally Posted by Brass Monkey How do you know all this stuff? |
I'm a scientist - its my job to know weird shit.
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| Originally Posted by Brass Monkey Can you clue us in to what they use for rebreathers on the EVA's. |
Lithium hydroxide - see
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...alsj/plss.html for the Apollo suit design.
Duncan
PS. Superoxide is KO2 whereas the Russians use a binary mixture of two chemicals. Get water in the loop and the stuff will come looking for you. There's a significant difference in RB design for use in the dry - e.g. space suits, mines rescue etc. as one to be used for diving. Oh and yes it was pure O2 but at a reduced pressure. Stuff will burn on 0.2 atm of pure O2 in more or less the same way as in air at 1 atm.