nitrox {scuba}

Nitrox Mixture

Description

Create a Nitrox gas mixture.

Usage

 nitrox(fO2)

Arguments

fO2

Fraction (between 0 and 1) of oxygen in the nitrox mixture.

Details

An object of class "gas" represents a breathing gas. Such objects are required for various calculations in the scuba library.

The value returned by nitrox represents Nitrox (oxygen-nitrogen mixture) with the fraction of oxygen specified by the argument fO2.

For the standard Nitrox calculations, see ead and mod. To determine whether a gas is nitrox, use is.nitrox.

There are methods for print and summary for objects of class "gas".

Value

An object of class "gas" representing Nitrox with the specified fraction of oxygen.

Author(s)

Adrian Baddeley [e-mail].

See Also

dive, ead, mod, air, is.nitrox

Examples

  # Nitrox I (32% oxygen) 
  nitrox(0.32)
  # Nitrox II (36% oxygen)
  nitrox(0.36)
  #
  g <- nitrox(0.50)
  is.nitrox(g)