I was watching hamilton’s pharmacopeia and he was inhaling xenon and seemed to think it was pretty safe. As a layman, my intuition tells me inhaling anything besides oxygen is not safe. Why can you breath pure gases other than oxygen and be fine?
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Air is a mix of gases, it’s not just oxygen. Noble gases are almost completely non reactive so there is no toxic or caustic effect from them. Now if you only breath in a noble gas you will eventually suffocate, but a single breath is essentially harmless.
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