A breathing apparatus or breathing set is equipment which allows a person to breathe in a hostile environment where breathing would otherwise be impossible...
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Escape breathing apparatus, also called escape respirators, escape sets, self-rescuer masks, emergency life saving apparatus (ELSA), emergency escape...
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A self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) is a respirator worn to provide an autonomous supply of breathable gas in an atmosphere that is immediately...
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Rebreather (redirect from Breathing tube (breathing apparatus))
A rebreather is a breathing apparatus that absorbs the carbon dioxide of a user's exhaled breath to permit the rebreathing (recycling) of the substantially...
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The Oxygen breathing apparatus (OBA) is a closed circuit oxygen rebreather. used primarily in firefighting by the US Navy. Its oxygen is generated by...
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High altitude breathing apparatus is a breathing apparatus which allows a person to breathe more effectively at an altitude where the partial pressure...
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Underwater breathing apparatus is equipment which allows the user to breathe underwater. The three major categories of ambient pressure underwater breathing apparatus...
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Scuba set (redirect from Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus)
originally just scuba, is any breathing apparatus that is entirely carried by an underwater diver and provides the diver with breathing gas at the ambient pressure...
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Dead space (physiology) (redirect from Deadspace (in breathing apparatus))
or external dead space is volume in the passages of a breathing apparatus in which the breathing gas flows in both directions as the user breathes in and...
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to illness or constraints on gas flow imposed by breathing apparatus, ambient pressure, or breathing gas composition. The normal relaxed state of the...
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