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Decompression theory, a Common card
Decompression theory is the study and modelling of the transfer of the inert gas component of breathing gases from the gas in the lungs to the tissues and back during exposure to variations in ambient pressure.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 90
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 180
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,000
Ranked #857 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In the case of underwater diving and compressed air work, this mostly involves ambient pressures greater than the local surface pressure, but astronauts, high altitude mountaineers, and travellers in aircraft which are not pressurised to sea level pressure, are generally exposed to ambient pressures less than standard sea level atmospheric pressure.
- In all cases, the symptoms caused by decompression occur during or within a relatively short period of hours, or occasionally days, after a significant pressure reduction.
- The term "decompression" derives from the reduction in ambient pressure experienced by the organism and refers to both the reduction in pressure and the process of allowing dissolved inert gases to be eliminated from the tissues during and after this reduction in pressure.
Why it is Common
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Text : Wikipedia, Decompression theory (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Remigiusz Baliński, Bogusław Ogrodnik, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.




