What could happen if I don't fix the Oxygen Sensor for my car??
The Oxygen Sensor is a gadget that constantly measures the oxygen level in the exaust gases as a way to determine how rich or lean the air/fuel mixture is. The sensor's data is sent to the onboard computer which then makes a calculation and adjusts the mixture accordingly if nessesary. Clearly then, if the oxygen sensor is faulty, it will send bad data (or none at all) to the on-board computer. This will adversely affect the resulting air/fuel mixture. For example, the air/fuel mixture could end up being too rich (too much gas, not enough air), therefore causing poor gas mileage. So if you don't fix the problem, your car will run, but could have poor fuel mileage. With today's fuel prices, it could save you money in the long run. But I got to add this..... there are some really odd answers to your question that tells me some people should not answer a question they don't know the answer to. I would never take my car to a shop that welds the pipe shut! A potenial life or death situation???? Only for your wallet!!
What would happen if Oxygen was 25%?
Increased oxygen is associated with increase fire and explosion hazard. In a steady-state condition, the higher-risk conditions would mostly have already undergone the oxidation event, but common conditions such as the presence of decaying vegetation and dry growth such as exists under our current atmospheric oxygen content would not be common with higher oxygen content. Spontaneous combustion and fiercer fire events would occur when such conditions formed. The effect would be a gross change in ecologies. Dry forest undergrowth would not persist, the types of vegetation would be modified to more succulent species (less likely to burn), and marginally dry areas would be difficult to keep vegetated. that is one possible effect. Increasing atmospheric oxygen content (pO2) would also have chemical effects via the increase in oxidation state. Some metal contents in water would be expected to be higher, many oxidative weathering reactions would proceed more rapidly, and so on. the effects on water pH and on atmospheric CO2 become more speculative, but there would be changes. Oxidation reactions that produce soluble cations affect pH; more rapid degradation of organic debris would increase CO2 (and thus acidify waters). It makes for an interesting what-if scenario. So, not just a question as to how life would respond via direct effects of higher oxygen in air. The greatest impact on life might be the capacity for larger growth of animals (such as insects) that receive oxygen via diffusion-dominated processes.
What could happen if there were more oxygen in the atmosphere than nitrogen?
Insects would get big again, like they were 300 million years ago. Dragonflies with a wingspan of almost a meter, and frogs would be as big as Volkswagen Beetles. Fires would break out more often and more spontaneously. Plants would have a harder time growing. You would not be happy in that world ;-)
What would happen if Earth had too much oxygen?
As you know oxygen is the basic material needed for almost all organisms, some can survive without oxygen.So, what happens if it becomes too much?Too much oxygen may cause Hyperoxia in human beings as well as animals, so yes people would be poisoned- a disadvantage.Oxygen is a supporter of combustion, so combustions concentration will increase due to the high presence of oxygen. - another disadvantage. But this can make vehicles to consume less gas. - an advantageHigher oxygen helps to keep the brain active, happy and fresh. -another advantage. But excess oxygen in the lungs or other body tissues, which can lead to oxygen toxicity, caused from the harmful effects of breathing molecular oxygen at elevated partial pressures. - disadvantage.. And manyIf people were to invent something that lessened pollution created by cars and instead, produced oxygen, would it affect Earth in a good way or bad way?In the beginning, I don’t think it would be a big consequence but as it go on increases, as I mentioned above, things starts to get crazy and…. oxygen apocalypse!(wow!)If found helpful, upvote.Thanks!Edit 1: Source :Hyperoxia - Wikipedi
What would happen if there was only Carbon Dioxide in the air?
Plants depend on carbon dioxide, but if there is too much CO2 plants will die. CO2 is a baking hot compound, so oceans will evaporate. Humans depend on oxygen so CO2 will kill humans. Finally, the Earth will be like its neighbor, Venus.
What would happen if Earth's atmosphere was 50% oxygen and 50% nitrogen?
Oh here's a fun one. We would have Giant bugs.It’s true. Before even the dinosaurs, giant dragonflies the size of seagulls ruled the skies. During the carboniferous period we had much more oxygen, about 30 percent. But for insects who couldn't regulate their oxygen intake this meant death by oxygen toxicity, so the simple solution was grow bigger or die. That drove the need to get bigger, but the increased oxygen also allowed their shell-like body to support more weight.Now your proposed 50 percent is obviously much higher than that the 30 percent of the carboniferous era so either we get some VERY big bugs, or everything dies.
What would happen if oxygen would be 78% (approx) and nitrogen 22% (approx) respectively?
While not higher than N2, there once were much higher levels of O2 than today. It was the Carboniferous Era. Dragonflies had huge wingspans because insects, without lungs, could get O2 to their body parts better when the O2 was higher, allowing them to grow much larger. We speculate that fire was more common then because higher O2 concentrations make starting fires easier.Because N2 and O2 constitute nearly 100% of our air, more O2 than N2 means O2 greater than 50%, which is more than double what it is today (~21%). There were recent wildfires in California that took weeks to contain. You can be sure that even a modest increase in O2 concentration would have made more wildfires and that they would have burnt up even larger areas.At 50% O2, a match would essentially explode when you struck it.More importantly, we would all die young because of the destruction of our sensitive lung linings by oxygenation (slow burning). Who knows, even spontaneous human combustion (impossible in our air) might be a possibility of the O2 were high enough.I could also read this question differently. What if the N2 were reduced and replaced by, say, Ar. Now, the O2 could still be 21%, but the N2 could be anything less than that. About half of the worldwide nitrogen compounds in soil come from nitrogen-fixing bacteria, there would be a drop in soil nitrogen (assuming that the bacteria’s effectiveness depends on the partial pressure of N2). Plants would grow more slowly and less vigorously. The reduction in the production of the producers of our food webs on land would rebound throughout all land life and result in widespread death. The eventual rebalancing of the food webs would leave behind a different world.
What would happen if there was no Carbon Dioxide in the air? If we only breathed 100% oxygen...?
The amount of CO2 in atomspheric air is in trace amounts. Your body produces CO2 through natural processes respiration and end product of cellular respiration. CO2 (bicarbonate) is also an important regulator of balancing blood pH, it is very complex to explain. Yes, you are correct about CO2 stimulating the breathing mechanism, however this is the amount of CO2 in the blood, which can be accumulated in cellular respiration. Here is a website that might help. NS Clinical Lab Scientist
What would happen if the amount of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was doubled instantly? Specifically, what changes would it cause in the organisms living on Earth?
Instantly (in 0 time)? In the same space the oxygen occupies now? There's something about it nobody answering seems to have noticed!PV=nRT describes approximately (well enough for this discussion) the relationship of the physical properties of gases. P for pressure, V for volume, n for amount, R is a constant, and T is temperature. So you're doubling n in 0 time. V is not usually constant in most places there's oxygen, because the atmosphere has no lid on it, but if the change in n occurred instantly, there wouldn't be time for the atmosphere to expand before P, the pressure, doubled in absolute terms. Oxygen being about 20% of the atmosphere by mole, the atmospheric pressure would instantly increase by 20%, or 200 millibars. Of course that would go on inside lungs as well as everywhere else, since you didn't specify anyplace unaffected, so the pressure wave would not collapse lungs. However, it would still produce concussion on every living thing exposed to air. The effect would be more powerful than any concussion bomb ever exploded, because you can't get a faster pressure rise than one that occurs in 0 time. So expect all living things of a soft construction, such as human beings, to be killed if they're touching the air. Even diving air-breathing animals would be affected, albeit differently. Although liquid water conducts a pressure wave much faster than air, 0 is not a lot of time, so whales, etc. under water would have a sudden 20% increase in pressure in their lungs before the atmospheric pressure increase was transmitted thru the water. So they'd be killed by concussion too, only from the inside out. Trees would probably be unaffected by the shock. Since the pressure would be coming from all around equally, it's not like they'd be blown down as they would by an explosion from a point source.