Synopsis
. How bubbles in the blood cause the bends.
- Programme: Short Circuit
- Series: Physics
- Episode: Pressure
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2009
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Physics (J249): P1.3c, P1.3d, P1.3f
Combined Science (J250): NA
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