AIR DEPRESSION KILLS SOLDIERS
I Atmospheric depression produced l by I the explosion of shells is. maintained ns the cause of.death of troops found unbounded on the £eld of battle in X 1 ranee, according to Alfonse Arnoux an eminent French engineei.' ' All officer recently seiit M. Arnoux a pocket aneroid barometer damaged bv •the explosion of' a shell only three yards f rom it. Experiments showed -the explosion had caused an atmospheric depression of about 350 millimetres of the mercury tube' corresponding to a dynamic pressure'of 10 tons to the square yard.• Troops exposed to this violent change met with conditions .(.similar to those experienced by aeronauts who ascend too iiist or workmen who leave com-pressed-air chambers without takin°proper precautions, the effect being to ■berate the air and.carbonic acid ensiled 111 the blood and transform them mto bubbles of gas. These bubbles are driven by the action of the heart into t ie capillary vessels, stopping the circulation and causing instant death.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2754, 25 April 1916, Page 8
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163AIR DEPRESSION KILLS SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2754, 25 April 1916, Page 8
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