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A liter of liquid is a lot more than a liter of gas ...

• Liftyee 1y ago
  Isn't liquid oxygen cryogenic (boils at -183C)? The engineering of keeping that ...there... gets interesting fast, especially when dealing with all the cold (absorbed heat from expanding gas) and containing the pressure while also releasing oxygen slowly.
  • o11c 1y ago
    Um yeah don't use liquid oxygen. But oxygen dissolved or otherwise absorbed in a material is fair game. Even without anything fancy, water can contain about 1% free oxygen, which is 8x what you could do with gaseous oxygen (which is in turn 5x what atmospheric mixture has). And there are a lot of chemical reactions that can produce oxygen much better than 1%. The trick is going to be avoiding heat changes.
    • jcgrillo 1y ago
      > Um yeah don't use liquid oxygen. You could probably do it once..
    • hobs 1y ago
      There's a lot of water so as long as my anal cooling fins project into the cooling fluid it sounds like I'll be down there for hours.
  • estimator7292 1y ago
    The oxygen gas is dissolved into a different liquid, some kind of perfluorate in this case. You can put more oxygen molecules in a given volume when dissolved in a liquid than if you just compress the gas.
  • whycome 1y ago
    Watch the abyss. The mouse!