Do we have enough air?
Physics Education
2007-05-23 v1
Authors:
V. Dorobantu
Abstract
If only human beings would breathe the entire quantity of terrestrial air, then, at the present-day population on the Earth, one million years would exhaust that air. It seems we have enough air. Is it so?
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@article{arxiv.physics/0604077,
title = {Do we have enough air?},
author = {V. Dorobantu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0604077},
year = {2007}
}
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