• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I feel like a ton of C02 at air pressure should be bigger.
      I know it’s correct, but it looks like the amount of exhaust produced by a car idling for a few minutes, at a visceral level you just expect a literal tonne of gas to take up more volume.

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        3 months ago

        I assume CO2 is only a portion of the exhaust. Not sure if that’s what you were meaning already?

        Edit: No idea of the quality of this source, but:

        So what’s coming out of a car exhaust is 13 per cent CO2, 13 per cent water (26 per cent sub-total) and 73 per cent nitrogen gas. The air that you’re breathing right now is 78 per cent nitrogen gas, 21 per cent oxygen, and one percent everything else.