Tuesday, June 07, 2005
I Dont Think So
Invention Allows Humans to Breathe Like FishIf we could breathe like fish we would not need an invention to do it!
OK, so I am feeling curmudgeonly and sarcastic today. This is actually a cool device. However, this is an awful story about it.
The system uses the "Henry Law" which states that the amount of gas that can be dissolved in a liquid is proportional to the pressure on the liquid.It's Henry's Law and it is not based on pressure on the surface of the liquid, but partial pressure of the gaseous solute of interest. Which means at exactly the same total pressure, but a different gaseous composition the dissolved concentrations will change.
This is from a science reporting site -- you would think they could do a better job of reporting actual science.
