The doors were shut below him and breathable air whispered around him.
The air was infinitely breathable and sustaining, the vegetation lush, with roots that went deep into the ground.
They found that the tiny world possessed a breathable atmosphere and a fluid resembling water, but nearly as dense as mercury.
You know there may be something like breathableair down there, and perhaps living creatures who can breathe it.
These partly dissolve in the water and partly reach the surface, where their froth supplies the atmosphere with an excess of breathable gas.
Those dregs must disappear as soon as they are formed, must be burnt and purified; and from their oxidized ruins there must even rise a perfect life-giving gas, so that the water may retain an unchangeable store of the breathable element.
It seemed as though the envelope of breathable air surrounding the earth had suddenly become vastly rarified.
Between us and the earth lies a portion of the universe that has no atmosphere--no breathable air--like that envelope which surrounds the moon.
We still continued to find ether sufficiently dense to be converted into a breathable atmosphere, and into water--everything promised well for the ultimate success of our daring enterprise.
In fact we did not find breathable atmosphere for more than five hundred miles above the surface of the Earth.
Throughout this period of unparalleled darkness our air was very bad, and the condensers working at their utmost pressure could scarcely keep up a sufficient supply of breathable atmosphere.
The condensers worked admirably, but driven at their utmost capacity, they still failed to furnish sufficient breathable atmosphere.
There, attached flasks of breathable atmosphere fill it out in a minute.
But it will take the algae about two hundred years to split the carbon dioxide and give the atmosphere a breathable amount of free oxygen, to say nothing of cracking the poisonous formaldehyde.
Maybe they'll even figure out a way to make it rotate faster, give it a reasonably short day, and a breathable atmosphere--make a warmer second Earth out of it.
Now the second planet revealed plenty of breathable atmosphere settled in the lower valleys.
The second in distance had a breathable oxygen, according to the scopes, but little else to recommend it.
To Ralph the Sienese air was not only breathablebut intoxicating.
You know as well as I do, Professor, that man can live under water, providing he carries with him a sufficient supply of breathable air.
Aronnax, that the pumps of the Nautilus allow me to store the air under considerable pressure, and on those conditions the reservoir of the apparatus can furnish breathable air for nine or ten hours.
Growing plants kept the air in their greenhouse fresh and breathable by photosynthesis.
Professor, you know as well as I do that a man can live underwater so long as he carries with him his own supply of breathable air.
But soon these last representatives of animal life vanished, and three vertical leagues down, the Nautilus passed below the limits of underwater existence just as an air balloon rises above the breathable zones in the sky.
And all remaining breathableair had to be saved for the workmen.
It was not enough that the converters could supply the citizenry with breathable air.
Aronnax, that the pumps of the Nautilus allow me to store the air under considerable pressure; and the reservoir of the apparatus can furnishbreathable air for nine or ten hours.
You know as well as I do, professor, that man can live under water, providing he carries with him a sufficient supply of breathable air.
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