Timeline for is nitrogen put in airplane tires? and Why?
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| Feb 23, 2023 at 14:27 | vote | accept | jimb | ||
| Feb 18, 2023 at 13:42 | history | edited | John K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 18, 2023 at 8:05 | comment | added | sophit | @user71659: yes sure, water is not an ideal gas. But the answer is speaking about the expansion of oxygen vs. nitrogen. | |
| Feb 18, 2023 at 3:14 | comment | added | user71659 | @sophit Air does not behave as an ideal gas due to the presence of water vapor. Water has a strong dipole moment, which makes it deviate from an ideal gas, particularly as the tire is expected to operate within the relatively small range between freezing and boiling of water. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 20:26 | comment | added | John K | @sophit I thought there were small differences at higher pressures no? | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 20:24 | comment | added | John K | @Frog even at 150-200 psi? | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 19:31 | comment | added | sophit | Thermal expansion coefficient of oxygen and nitrogen should be basically the same i.e. like the one of any other (ideal) gas. I suppose that the main reason to use pure nitrogen instead of air is still to avoid to feed any fire in case of incident. | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 18:54 | comment | added | Frog | Although oxygen molecules are smaller than nitrogen (0.299 vs 0.305nm) the difference is insignificant from a leakage perspective. That’s nanometers of course, not nautical miles | |
| Feb 17, 2023 at 17:42 | history | answered | John K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |