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Nitrogen is a gas that pretty much no one cares about and our bodies don't metabolize it, yet it makes up 79% of the air we breathe. Given that we only require oxygen, could you replace nitrogen with any other inert gas and breathe just fine?

by /u/SalemStarburn in /r/askscience

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