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This was
done a long time ago to demonstrate that oxygen is metabolized and to find the rate at
which it is metabolized, i.e. oxygen uptake or oxygen consumption. With modern analytical techniques a wide variety of vapors can be investigated, provided that they are not appreciably absorbed on the chamber walls or animal fur (or that a correction is made for this) and do not react with them. |