oxygen mask
noun
: a device worn over the nose and mouth through which oxygen is supplied from a storage tank
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Gas masks or similar devices, not including medical oxygen masks, cloth masks, or N95 or KN95 surgical masks used to avoid transmission of viruses.
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Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
Images and video shared on social media see both passengers and crewmembers donning oxygen masks in front of a gaping hole left in the side of the plane.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024
Putting on your own oxygen mask before others proves trying especially when family members might be forced into debt otherwise.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 June 2024
The major difference, of course, is that airplane oxygen masks do not drop only in first class—which is the equivalent of what will happen when vaccines eventually become available if governments delay providing access to them to people in other countries.
—Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2020
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Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
Images and video shared on social media see both passengers and crewmembers donning oxygen masks in front of a gaping hole left in the side of the plane.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024
Putting on your own oxygen mask before others proves trying especially when family members might be forced into debt otherwise.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 June 2024
The major difference, of course, is that airplane oxygen masks do not drop only in first class—which is the equivalent of what will happen when vaccines eventually become available if governments delay providing access to them to people in other countries.
—Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2020
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“Oxygen mask.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oxygen%20mask. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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