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Hugin

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3. It's not the tanks, it's the oxygen concentrator machines.
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 03:15 AM
Jul 2018

They have a membrane in them which separates the O2 in the air from the nitrogen which makes up the majority of the atmospheric gas.

I believe it works because oxygen is a smaller molecule. Sort of how a reverse osmosis system purifies water.

The problem with tanks is they're like batteries, once they run out... They run out and the user is dependent on someone bringing them another tank.

Breathing by Permission [View all] madamesilverspurs Jul 2018 OP
Oh, dear. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #1
It's not the tanks, it's the oxygen concentrator machines. Hugin Jul 2018 #3
The OP seems to have conflated oxygen tanks with oxygen concentrator machines. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #7
OP isn't conflating anything cyclonefence Jul 2018 #13
Wall Street has turned breathing into a commodity. Hugin Jul 2018 #2
And I thought I had it bad, it's appalling how basic functions are commoditized SemiHalfling Jul 2018 #4
+100 KT2000 Jul 2018 #5
I have used oxygen concentrators for 17 years Hamlette Jul 2018 #6
Crazy. madamesilverspurs Jul 2018 #15
wow! lampworking 30 years ago, you were a pioneer. Hamlette Jul 2018 #16
Meanwhile, Scarsdale Jul 2018 #8
Perhaps you should call your doctor PatSeg Jul 2018 #9
Same sort of thing going on with CPAPs spinbaby Jul 2018 #10
so I have this idea for a different type of oxygen concentrator lapfog_1 Jul 2018 #11
so much is so wrong right now... handmade34 Jul 2018 #12
Ebay has some cyclonefence Jul 2018 #14
My husband is on oxygen too, and frogmarch Jul 2018 #17
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