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Old 27th January 2007 | 21:43
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snips
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Air in Tyres

The Partial Pressure of Oxygen in a Tyre filled air is much greater. This causes the problem by making O2 a much improved oxidisation agent. They have a similar problem in dive recompression chambers.
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