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death zone
Altitudes above which the pressure of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span
Also known as lethal zone
- Elevation
- 8,000 m
Overview
All data
20 statements · 0% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Discovered
- 1953
- Has characteristic
- deficiency criterion used: human body · characteristic of: dioxygen, partial pressure
- impossibility criterion used: human body · characteristic of: acclimatization
- partial pressure numeric value: 356 millibar · characteristic of: dioxygen · sourcing circumstances: less than or equal to
- Has effect
- hypoxia
- high altitude pulmonary edema nature of statement: sometimes
- high altitude cerebral edema nature of statement: sometimes
- death nature of statement: sometimes
- Members / parts
- main peak quantity: 14
On other databases
1 identifiers linking death zone across the web's reference databases