Liquid Oxygen Questions

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Thread: Liquid Oxygen Questions

# 16438 byArthur Smith on March 13, 2002, 2:19 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

> > I believe at one atmosphere and room temperature a typical gas
> density
> > is around 1 gram per cubic meter (give or take a factor of 10 or so
> > depending on what the gas is made of).
> >

Oops - that should have been 1 kg/m^3 (off by 1000...) Here's a
reference where the number for 0 degrees C is 1.275 kg/m^3:

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wdensity.htm

And here's a link on liquid oxygen - density is 1142 kg/m^3 (liquid
densities are almost independent of temperature and pressure), liquid
air as a whole is about 880 kg/m^3:

http://antoine.fsu.umd.edu/chem/senese/101/measurement/faq/density-liquid-air.shtml

Arthur Smith (apsmith@...