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Old Apr 17, 2010, 10:03 pm
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GalleyWench
 
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Originally Posted by Yaatri
Similar, but not quite. Difference is that between $10k and a million $. Both sums represent large amount of money.
In an aircraft decompression at 30,000 ft, pressure drops by 400 cm, hundred times the difference in a bipap, Decompression from 20 cm of pressure is 20 times less than that in an aircraft decompression.
Yaatri,
I was just making a bad attempt at humor, comparing that first burp in the morning to a decompression.
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