Timeline for Which gas is used to fill the evacuation slides of modern aircraft?
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| Feb 13, 2015 at 3:52 | vote | accept | NitinG | ||
| Feb 12, 2015 at 18:45 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @JustinKiang ... almost: It's called Venturi effect, after Giovanni Battista Venturi. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 18:43 | comment | added | Justin Kiang | The way ambient air gets sucked in by the compressed gas flow is called ventrui effect. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 10:09 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @GdD: Mostly, but the initial compressed gas which provides the energy for filling is not air, but an oxygen-free mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 9:49 | comment | added | GdD | In other words, they're filled with air. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 8:36 | history | answered | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |