Uses of Air

Uses of Air

* Air is used by plants and animals for breathing.

* Air is used for burning fuels like wood, coal, kerosene, LPG etc.

* Compressed air is used to fill tyres of various kinds of vehicles.

* Air plays an important role in maintaining the water cycle in the nature.

* Ozone layer, present in the atmosphere, helps in preventing harmful radiations of the sun from reaching the earth’s surface.

* Under extra – ordinary conditions such as:

a.  a patient having breathing difficulties,

b. a mountaineer climbing a high mountain,

c. a diver going deep into the sea-oxygen gas cylinders are used for breathing purposes.

* Blowing air is used to turn the blades of wind mills.

The wind mills are used to draw water by running pumps, run flour mills and to generate electricity.