• Question: How long will you be able to live for if your in a room full of carbon dioxide?

    Asked by anon-200233 to Rosemary, Oliver, Leigh, Jordan, Hannah, David on 7 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Oliver Gordon

      Oliver Gordon answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      If it’s 100% carbon dioxide, until you run out of oxygen in your lungs. A few seconds, 1 minute tops?

      Either way, I don’t really recommend it!

    • Photo: David Walker-Sünderhauf

      David Walker-Sünderhauf answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      About 3 minutes, as long as you can hold your breath! (assuming there is only carbon dioxide in the room but nothing else)
      Fun fact about holding your breath – it’s not actually the lack of oxygen that will kill you, but the carbon dioxide poisoning. Try holding your breath, when you’re finished the first thing you do is breath out (to get rid of carbon dioxide), even before you breath in to get fresh oxygen!

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