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When you scubadive, why do you still need to breathe the same volume of air into your lungs? Doesn’t that volume contain multiple times the molecules of oxygen your body needs? Shouldn’t you theoretically be able to either breathe less often, or breathe less volume?

by /u/jeango in /r/askscience

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