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  • Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    7 months ago

    That’s great! because a surprising amount of research was done (way more than anticipated). You will learn some crazy things by studying this. All elements are in solid at STP so for the gasses that’s in the range of -200 C. Someone suggested doing a version with liquid and gas enemas but you know? I’m just not that dedicated (yet)

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      7 months ago

      My first thought was “why is nitrogen dangerous?” but I was thinking about it at room temperature or around 20C.

      I know about decompression sickness (the bends) but I wouldn’t expect that to be a problem at 1 atmosphere. Then I stumbled upon isobaric counterdiffusion and I wondered if that could happen from pumping any pure gas into the rectum at atmospheric pressure, since it’d be at a higher partial pressure than any gas in the tissue.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah I think gasses in the rectum have several severe issues that liquids don’t have. Mostly because liquids don’t exert pressure. Could get pretty in-depth.

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        7 months ago

        I was informed by someone that elemental iodine is actually toxic when not in salt form. Could be true/false?