scuba (version 1.8-0)

nitrox: Nitrox Mixture

Description

Create a Nitrox gas mixture.

Usage

nitrox(fO2)

Arguments

fO2

Fraction (between 0 and 1) of oxygen in the nitrox mixture.

Value

An object of class "gas" representing Nitrox with the specified fraction of oxygen.

Details

An object of class "gas" represents a breathing gas. Such objects are required for various calculations in the scuba library. The value returned by nitrox represents Nitrox (oxygen-nitrogen mixture) with the fraction of oxygen specified by the argument fO2.

For the standard Nitrox calculations, see ead and mod. To determine whether a gas is nitrox, use is.nitrox. There are methods for print and summary for objects of class "gas".

See Also

dive, ead, mod, air, is.nitrox

Examples

  # Nitrox I (32% oxygen) 
  nitrox(0.32)
  # Nitrox II (36% oxygen)
  nitrox(0.36)
  #
  g <- nitrox(0.50)
  is.nitrox(g)