I wonder if you already have nitrogen in your tires and they are low can you add oxygen???
I breezed through the article and didn't see mention of it. Maybe I missed it.
I'm no chemist but if you mix nitrogen (N) plus oxygen (O2) do you get NO2 (nitrous oxide?
Or does there have to be a special reaction or something or is this something totally different?
The very last part of the article talked about mixing your gasses.
Mixing Nitrogen And Air
There is some confusion about what happens when nitrogen and air are mixed inside a tire. By way of example: when a nitrogen-inflated tire needs some additional pressure and nitrogen is not available.
Normal air is about 78-percent nitrogen; so adding compressed air will simply drop the nitrogen purity. There shouldn't be any adverse affects on the tire or vehicle handling, provided the pressure is kept at the proper level.
The manufacturers of nitrogen inflation system advise that any tire containing both nitrogen and air be purged and then re-inflated with the proper amount of nitrogen as soon as possible. The same procedure holds true in the event that a tire would need to be replaced and nitrogen is not available.
In a situation where a nitrogen-inflated steer tire has been repaired and refilled with air, some nitrogen inflation system manufacturers recommend that the nitrogen be let out of the other steer tire and re-filled with air.
The reason, they explain, is that an air-filled tire will heat up and expand, whereas the tire with nitrogen will not, possibly causing a slight pull to the side with the nitrogen-inflated tire. With air in both steer tires, the air pressure will expand relatively equally, so there shouldn't be any steering issues.
