There’s a biting substance common to environment by which iron turns into brittle rust, and vividly increases the risk of flames and blast, and sometimes destroys the cells of the very organisms that rely on it for survival. This substance that makes up 25% of atmosphere is Diatomic oxygen (O2), which is also known as Oxygen.
Certainly, oxygen has its good points. Besides being necessary for respiration and the reliable combustion engine, it can also be used as in liquefied form as rocket fuel! It is also widely used as a medicine as a means to imbue the body with a greater amount of the needed gas. However, recent studies indicate that handling oxygen might be doing less good than hoped-and in fact be causing harm. No one is protected to be the dangers of oxygen, but the people who most suffer the ill effects are infants newly introduced to breath, and those who are clinically dead.
Modern medicines dictates oxygen therapy for different types of injuries and ailments. The common wisdom is that by filling the lungs with pure O2, one is pushing more of the vital gas into the blood, and thus to organs that are weakened and in need of support. It has also long been known that even at partial pressures, pure oxygen can be toxic- a fact with which scuba drivers and astronauts are intimately familiar. Recent studies have indicated that the human body responds to pure oxygen, even at normal pressures, in a negative way. When pure O2 is introduced to the lings, automatic reflex