if i live in my car,and have every window shut,can i use all of the oxygen up?is that why my lighter wont work

Question

do i breath all of the oxygen out of the air with windows closed. i light my lighter when i first come in but hours later i cant light my lighter until i open a window

Answer 1

yep this is the fact

Answer 2

If there is not sufficient oxygen to light your lighter then there isn't sufficient oxygen for you to breathe and you would be in big trouble. Cars have vents in them that allow air into the car. So anyway if this is the case then I wouldn't recommend sleeping in your car without your windows cracked.

Answer 3

Usually a vent is found in cars aside from windows. Lack of oxygen though can make it difficult for you to light a lighter.

Answer 4

Air is 20% oxygen. However ~3% of CO2 is fatal, so you will be dead when the oxygen level drops to 17%. With this amount of oxygen, you will still be able to light your lighter (except you are dead)

Answer 5

Lighter normally uses Butane as fuel source.

Butane + Oxygen → Water + Carbon Dioxide + Energy

So without Oxygen, we can't light up a fire.

Answer 6

Yes you can use all the oxygen.When you inhale the oxygen it goes into your lungs and into the blood stream . Then you exhale carbon dioxide which is a poisonous gas if present in large concentration. Your lighter did not work because there is insufficient oxygen, there is fuel but the fuel can not be burned continously.

Answer 7

First, if all the O2 was gone, you would not be able to light your lighter, not because of the lack of O2, but because your unconscious. Second, if you replaced all the O2 in the car with CO2 you would be dead. At 2% you would know something was wrong and feel like you couldnt breath, its toxic at about 3%.

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Volunteers exposed to 3.3% or 5.4% CO2 for 15 minutes experienced increased depth of breathing. At 7.5%, a feeling of an inability to breathe (dyspnea), increased pulse rate, headache, dizziness, sweating, restlessness, disorientation, and visual distortion developed. Twenty-minute exposures to 6.5 or 7.5% decreased mental performance. Irritability and discomfort were reported with exposure to 6.5% for approximately 70 minutes. Exposure to 6% for several minutes, or 30% for 20-30 seconds, has affected the heart, as evidenced by altered electrocardiograms.

Workers briefly exposed to very high concentrations showed damage to the retina, sensitivity to light (photophobia), abnormal eye movements, constriction of visual fields, and enlargement of blind spots. Exposure to up to 3.0% for over 15 hours, for six days, resulted in decreased night vision and colour sensitivity.

Exposure to 10% for 1.5 minutes has caused eye flickering, excitation and increased muscle activity and twitching. Concentrations greater than 10% have caused difficulty in breathing, impaired hearing, nausea, vomiting, a strangling sensation, sweating, stupor within several minutes and loss of consciousness within 15 minutes. Exposure to 30% has quickly resulted in unconsciousness and convulsions. Several deaths have been attributed to exposure to concentrations greater than 20%. Effects of CO2 can become more pronounced upon physical exertion, such as heavy work.

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Answer 8

Yes. It is the same reason why a lit candle will stop burning after a while if you cover it with a jar; all the oxygen is used up.

Answer 9

You can not use up all the oxygen in the car and live to tell about it

Answer 10

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