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"Ordinary air is about 21 percent oxygen and 78 percent nitrogen. Under
water, each gas exerts its own pressure, independently of the other.
"That means the compresed air that a diver breathes at 10 meters actually
has 42 percent of the total pressure due to oxygen alone.