The solubility of oxygen in highly fluorinated liquids

Solubility of gases, especially oxygen, in fluorocarbons has achieved important status because of the latter's probable utility in artificial blood and liquid breathing, but only diverse data determined by various methods is scattered throughout the literature and company technical reports. One method, gas chromatography, was used to calculate and compare the oxygen and air solubility of a large number of fluorocarbons. Correlations were made between the oxygen solubilities and some of the physical properties of the compounds. Likewise, solubilities calculated using some lower parachor values resulted in a fairly good correlation.