What is the name of the gas used to fill in vehicle tyre tubes?
21 Answers
- Anonymous6 months ago
The air you breathe and phart out.(one is scented)
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- FLv 66 months ago
True air is virtually 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen with <1% other gases. Compressed air lines often contain water. Liquid water turning to vapour, produces a much bigger pressure change than just heating a gas. This is hardly noticable for normal driving but for racing and aircraft is can be a problem, so pure nitrogen is used as it is more predictable.
It has nothing to do with leaking less or lack of oxygen degrading your tyres slower.
- don rLv 76 months ago
Air, just like what you breathe. If you're thinking about paying premium to fill the tires with nitrogen, air is 80% nitrogen anyway, so save your $80.
- JoeLv 76 months ago
People with more money than sense will fill their tires (tyres) with nitrogen.
If you're not racing, or servicing an airliner, just use plain air.
- Anonymous6 months ago
Oxygen and nitrogen, sometimes just nitrogen.
- BJJLv 76 months ago
It's compressed air
The air we breathe, and the compressed air normally used to inflate tyres, is mostly nitrogen anyway – 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen and 1% other gases.