Is it dangerous to breathe in neon gas???
neon is a noble gas, so it's harmless unless its concentration is too high that you can not breath in oxygen. The smell you may feel probably is from other chemicals, the powder etc...
Is it safe to breath helium?
Helium is an inert gas and will do you no harm to breath it once or twice at a time. The only possible problem is that if you keep breathing it without taking a regular breath you will find yourself getting short of oxygen. So take a regular breath. But the helium itself can not hurt you. It is the least reactive element known. It can not get into your blood, it can not do anything to you. It will not react with anything you have in your body.
What happens if you breathe an inert gas?
The inert, or “noble” gases are helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon.If you breathe enough of it, you’ll suffocate because the gas will displace oxygen. These gases are called “simple asphyxiants.” If you breathe a little helium it’ll give you a high-pitched voice, and if you breathe a little xenon it’ll give you a low-pitched voice.Breathing radon will give you cancer.If you decide to breathe xenon, do yourself a huge favor and cut it with oxygen, 4 parts Xe to one part O2 by volume. Xenon has anesthetic properties - it’ll make you go to sleep. If you create a xenon/air mix with the same ratio as the N2/O2 mix in air, your body will get the oxygen it needs after you pass out and you’ll be fine. If you breathe pure xenon, it’ll drive out all the oxygen and kill you.
How much natural gas can a person breathe in before their long term health is negatively affected?
The oderant is pretty strong so if you smell a little bit and you are concerned about long term health effects probably it's not worth worrying about. If the smell is strong then obviously you shouldn't be there to breath it.The big issue I guess is displacement of air and oxygen which could happen in a high concentration.Interestingly natural gas only explodes at approximately 5 to 15% mix in air so until you pass out from oxygen displacement you probably don't have to worry about exploding.
Is it safe to breathe in the exhaust from a propane-powered forklift?
The exhaust from a propane powered forklift is not going to hurt you! It is carbon dioxide and water vapour for the most part. When we convert those engines to propane from gasoline we actually set them up to run slightly rich so there is a bit of unburnt hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide, but not very much. We do this because a lean-burning propane engine will fry the valves very quickly! If you ran a forklift in a very confined area like a two car garage for 8 hours a day you would probably want to have some mechanical ventilation. But in a factory or unit building, it's perfectly safe as long as the equipment is serviced regularly. The service technician should be using a 3-gas analyzer when they do tune ups to set the air fuel mixture correctly. EDIT: I'm not saying propane forklifts are "zero emissions". They're not. But compared to gasoline or diesel powered units, they might as well be. Perhaps you could explain to me why propane powered forklifts are FDA and EPA approved for use in food processing plant applications? Gasoline or diesel are not! Must be some reason!
Is nitrogen gas harmful to breath?
Every year people are killed by breathing “air” that contains too little oxygen. Because 78 percent of the air we breathe is nitrogen gas, many people assume that nitrogen is not harmful.However, nitrogen is safe to breathe only when mixed with the appropriate amount of oxygen. These two gases cannot be detected by the sense of smell. A nitrogen enriched environment, which depletes oxygen, can be detected only with special instruments. If the concentration of nitrogen is too high (and oxygen too low), the body becomes oxygen deprived and asphyxiation occurs.
What are the side effects of breathing hydrogen gas (the gas present in outer space) on the human body?
At standard temperature and pressure, hydrogen is a colorless, tasteless, odorless gas. Hydrogen gas is highly flammable and will burn in air in concentrations between 4% and 75% by volume. Hydrogen is not toxic, but in its pure form is a chemical asphyxiant. Hydrogen gas leaking into air may spontaneously ignite.Hydrogen inhalation can cause Symptoms of acute exposure include nausea, headaches, delirium, disturbed equilibrium, tremors, convulsions, and skin and eye irritation. Inhalation of high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide can produce extremely rapid unconsciousness and death. Exposure to the liquified gas can cause frostbite injury.If you couldn't breathe at all, you'd start to die in minutes—as soon as your body exhausted the supply of oxygen stored in the blood.
Can a gas leak kill you by breathing it in? I know it can cause an explosion but can it kill you just by being around it? If it fills up your, house?
As this is Quora, I must be literal here and assume that this is a real scenario.Gas leaks are a real thing. Gases can starve the oxygen out of a room and leave you to die. However, there are ways to help stop gas leaks. One of them is used with natural gas. Natural gas is poisonous, odourless and is hard to detect by human senses. However, a chemical called mercaptan is added in to give it a rotten eggs smell. However, carbon monoxide is more dangerous. It is able to kill a person by going into the bloodstream and wreaking havoc in the body, and is also odorless and does not irritate the body in any way. The only reason that a gas leak is less dangerous than a carbon monoxide leak is that one can be detected by humans and one can’t.For gases, it doesn’t matter how many parts per million there are in the air, but how long you stay in it.
Is inhaling helium from a balloon safe?
Not particularly.Let me tell you a story of a younger (around 20) and dafter me.This was back in the early ‘90s, maybe 1993 or so.I’d recently learned to Scuba dive, and in the UK there are a couple of large trade shows each year for diving. One at Earls Court in London, and one in Birmingham a few months later.I went with a friend to both, as you could pick up equipment for a very good price, especially on the last day as retailers would give large discounts rather than pack it all up to take home with them.Anyway, there was this girl……She worked on the DUI (a company that made very good drysuits and other such gear) stand, and I’d been chatting to her at the London show.I went to the Birmingham show a few month later, and there she was!So I got hold of a helium balloon from the stand next door, untied it, took a big lungful to say hello….And passed out from hypoxia…Taking out a rack of drysuits as I went down like a sack of potatoes.Smooth.My friend Mick, nearly wet himself laughing.She remembered me though,
Are breathing fumes from a gas stove when cooking bad for my baby?
I'm 23 weeks pregnant and we have an older gas stove (came with our apartment)that smells when it's on, but it was tested for leaks and had none. Could breathing these fumes hurt my baby?