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Carbon Dioxide in the Breath

Nature volume 74, page 81 (1906)Cite this article

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THE presence of 0.06 per cent. of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is held, I believe, to render the air unfit for breathing purposes, whereas 0.03 per cent. may be taken as normal. A consideration of the quantity of this gas which must be continually present in the lungs makes such sensitiveness on their part to appear rather extraordinary.

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SOUTHERDEN, F. Carbon Dioxide in the Breath. Nature 74, 81 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074081a0

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