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Helium is preferred to nitrogen, by the deep sea divers. Why?

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Nitrogen has a tendency to dissolve in blood at high pressure, deep in the sea. Helium has no such tendency. Disolved nitrogen is released from blood when the divers come to the surface of the sea. It causes severe pain called .Caisson sickness..
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