When you put a gas into a cylinder the particles move all over the place by a process called diffusion. Even though they have a different molecular weight, the heavier molecules do not settle at the bottom of the tank. You could take a sample of air from anywhere in the tank and it would be similar. This means it is homogeneous.
No it is not by any means. it is atmospheric air compressed with the high amounts of carbons and other gases lowered or removed.
You can use a scuba tank, but that is it.
Most SCUBA divers dive with compressed air, which is normal atmospheric air compressed into a scuba tank.
Divers (and others) call the compressed air cylinders used by divers tank(s) or SCUBA tank(s).
I would think so, because there are two of them mixed together. Air in a scuba tank or anywhere else should be heterogeneous. A scuba tank filled with either oxygen or nitrogen would be homogeneous.
the amount of air in the tank per square inch. (p.s.i.)Improve answerPounds per Square Inch - so the amount of pressure exerted on the tank by the air under pressure in the cylinder of the scuba diver. The more pressure, the more compressed the air so the greater the volume of air compressed within the cylinder.for more on scuba diving, including equipment see the related link:
Compressed air used for SCUBA should smell like regular air. There may be a slight rubber smell from the regulator. When in doubt, it is safer to get your tank refilled than to dive on contaminated air.
It definitely would. Also, a tank filled with non-compressed air would be nearly impossible to use because air wouldn't flow out of it without an enormous amount of effort. For these reasons, all tanks used by divers are filled with compressed air.
the silly answer is you can store anything in a scuba tank that you can get in it!!. BUTthe serious answer is scuba tank were designed for compressed air and nothing else... using a scuba tank for natural gas is like driving around with a bomb in your car!!, the valves and collars of the bottles are not strong enough if there was a crash
Because the air is compressed so that the same amount of air fills much less space meaning more can be put into a SCUBA cylinder. Normally a tank will be pressurised up to around 3000psi/200bar of pressure.
The numbers on a scuba tank reveal 3 things. Serial no. of the tank. Type metal. and the current hydro date.
Refrigerators, combustion engines, air cannons, SCUBA and submarines.
The diver uses an air tank, which is a tank filled with compressed air. It has a hose that goes from the tank to the mouth, which is held in the mouth by a 'mouth piece'. The tank has a regulator that allows the pressure in the tank to be regulated down for normal breathing.