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Uses
The piston then squeezes Hot steel may have
the mixture of oxygen impurities that are burned
This cylinder takes in away using pure oxygen.
oxygen along with the fuel. and fuel.

This piston
is pushed
down when the Steelmaking
mixture explodes.
The oxygen in this cylinder
can last for up to 30 minutes.

Scuba diver
Internal
This rocket carries liquid oxygen
combustion engine
that mixes with the fuel to produce hot
The up-and-down motion gases, which help the rocket lift off.
of the pistons makes the
wheels of a car spin.
Antifreeze
This liquid Oxygen is
contains
an oxygen colourless
compound as a gas, but looks
that prevents Atlas V rocket
water from pale blue
freezing in
an engine. as a liquid.
Mountaineers have to adjust The oxygen
in this
slowly to changing levels of cylinder
oxygen as they climb higher. Medical oxygen cylinder is given to
patients in
controlled
amounts.

This flammable
gas-oxygen
mixture burns
hot enough to
melt metal.
Welding torch
Mountaineer with oxygen supply

reacts with a fuel and produces fire. Oxygen is of petrol or other fuels. Oxygen is also useful
also used up when it reacts with other elements in the making of steel. Tanks of oxygen let
to form compounds called oxides. However, it is mountaineers breathe easily in environments
replenished by plants through a process called that have low levels of this gas. Rockets, such
photosynthesis, which releases fresh oxygen. as the Atlas V, carry liquid oxygen to burn fuel
Car engines are powered by the combustion in the absence of air in space. 167

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