What do Nitrox Ready and Suitable for Oxygen Service mean?
• O2 Compatible — compatible with high concentrations of oxygen. • O2 Clean — free of hydrocarbon contamination. When the diving community prepares an item for oxygen service, they generally think in terms of washing it with a detergent, replacing rubber parts such as O-rings and seals with oxygen-compatible equivalents and reassembling with oxygen-compatible lubricants. However, oxygen cleaning as performed in high-tech industry has a very different standard. True oxygen cleaning actually takes place in a special clean room, whose atmosphere is free of dust and contaminants. Once the component is free of hydrocarbons and other combustible elements, it is sealed within a sterile environment and never again exposed to normal atmospheric dust, moisture, and contaminants. This is what high-tech industry means when they describe something as oxygen clean. Some manufacturers offer diving products labeled Nitrox Ready, whose components are free of hydrocarbons and other flammable contamina
