What Happens If We Are Left Without Oxygen for 5 Minutes?

Imagine the entire world being deprived of oxygen for 5 seconds. Do you think we can survive this situation by holding our breath? What could happen for just 5 seconds? What do you think would happen to our atmosphere, living spaces, and environment? In this video, we will tell you what we would experience if oxygen were deprived for 5 seconds.

Take a deep breath and feel how valuable and satisfying it is. The air we breathe consists of 21% oxygen and 78% nitrogen. Although oxygen is not the most abundant gas in the atmosphere, it is the most important. Without it, plants, animals, water, and us humans would not be where we are today.

Being without oxygen for 5 seconds is actually not a very long time for us humans! Most of us can live for an average of 1 minute without breathing. We are sure that our bodies will survive this short time, but do you think everything will be that durable?

The entire world would look different in the 5 seconds when oxygen was deprived. Without oxygen, be prepared to say goodbye to anything made of dams, buildings or concrete, because these structures will collapse in an instant! The reason is that oxygen has a special relationship with concrete. When oxygen, which acts as a binding agent, disappears, you can say goodbye to all concrete structures.

While we are on the subject of buildings, be careful about any unprocessed metals. Because unprocessed metals will tend to fuse together in an oxygen-free environment. In other words, your car can turn into a solid metal box. The reason for this is that there is a protective oxidation layer on the surface of metals in an oxygen-free environment.

If you wonder what awaits you when this happens to you during your summer vacation, we can say that you are not safe again. The ozone layer in the atmosphere has destroyed itself naturally and the harmful ultraviolet rays emitted from the entire sun will hit our world at right angles. And since nothing can protect us from these rays, we will burn a little with the heated air.

Sudden loss of oxygen means that we lose 21% of our air pressure. This means that we will be exposed to a pressure force 2000 meters below sea level and our inner ear will be torn apart. Our ears are very sensitive organs and will not be able to adapt to this sudden loss of oxygen.

So far, it's actually like a doomsday scenario, isn't it? But don't worry, there will be good things: for example, there will be no fires for 5 seconds due to lack of oxygen. We will not see any fires in vehicles or in our forests. Are you happy? Don't be happy because all the cars, planes, sea vessels, in short, all the vehicles that run on internal combustion engines will either crash or stop!

Of course, while all this is happening, the Earth's crust will also completely disintegrate. This is because the Earth's crust is made up of 45% oxygen. When you take the oxygen from the surface, there will be nothing left. The result of this is free fall on the planet and getting lost in space.

Isn't it scary? Did you enjoy it? You probably didn't. Don't worry. Although we can't guarantee that this will never happen, it is a very impossible scenario. Now, as we said at the beginning, take another breath and enjoy the 21% oxygen.