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Default Can welding Oxygen be used in place of medical oxygen?

On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 04:03:32 +0100, Micky wrote:

On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 13:07:16 -0700, Taxed and Spent
wrote:

On 7/30/2016 11:55 AM, James Wilkinson wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:51:46 +0100, wrote:

On Friday, June 18, 2010 at 7:58:42 PM UTC-6, Some Guy wrote:
Is there any difference between a tank of welding oxygen vs medical
oxygen as far as purity, concentration, hazardous impurities, etc, that
would render welding oxygen insufficient (or even dangerous) for helping
to supplement breathing / respiration ?

No it is the same stuff.

One might be cleaner more pure oxygen? The odd impurity in welding
oxygen isn't a problem.


I could have sworn this topic was beaten to death more than one time
since 2010.


Perhaps it was, but someone gave it oxygen and revived it.


I hope it was 99.99% pure.

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