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I believe you will find these articles informative:

• The hidden life of a CO₂ cartridge [PDF]

• The CO₂ Cartridge … an Under-Appreciated Marvel of Technology! — George Fox Lang [PDF]

At room temperature (below the 31°C/87.8°F critical temperature) a CO₂ bottle is to a practical extent self-regulating. This is not possible with simple compressed air. You would need a larger, stronger, heavier "high pressure air" bottle with a regulator (and its associated cost and complexity) to serve the same function.

This makes CO₂ far more suited to a bicycle repair kit due to:

• small size
• low weight
• low cost
• reliability (simplicity)

This video of supercritical carbon dioxide provides an interesting window (both literal and figurative) into the phase behavior described in the articles above:

I believe you will find these articles informative:

• The hidden life of a CO₂ cartridge [PDF]

• The CO₂ Cartridge … an Under-Appreciated Marvel of Technology! — George Fox Lang [PDF]

At room temperature (below the 31°C/87.8°F critical temperature) a CO₂ bottle is to a practical extent self-regulating. This is not possible with simple compressed air. You would need a larger, stronger, heavier "high pressure air" bottle with a regulator (and its associated cost and complexity) to serve the same function.

This makes CO₂ far more suited to a bicycle repair kit due to:

• small size
• low weight
• low cost
• reliability (simplicity)

This video of supercritical carbon dioxide provides an interesting window (both literal and figurative) into the phase behavior described in the articles above:

I believe you will find these articles informative:

• The hidden life of a CO₂ cartridge [PDF]

• The CO₂ Cartridge … an Under-Appreciated Marvel of Technology! — George Fox Lang [PDF]

At room temperature (below the 31°C/87.8°F critical temperature) a CO₂ bottle is to a practical extent self-regulating. This is not possible with simple compressed air. You would need a larger, stronger, heavier "high pressure air" bottle with a regulator (and its associated cost and complexity) to serve the same function.

This makes CO₂ far more suited to a bicycle repair kit due to:

• small size
• low weight
• low cost
• reliability (simplicity)

This video of supercritical carbon dioxide provides an interesting window (both literal and figurative) into the phase behavior described in the articles above:

I believe you will find these articles informative:

• The hidden life of a CO₂ cartridge [PDF]

• The CO₂ Cartridge … an Under-Appreciated Marvel of Technology! — George Fox Lang [PDF]

At room temperature (below the 31°C/87.8°F critical temperature) a CO₂ bottle is to a practical extent self-regulating. This is not possible with simple compressed air. You would need a larger, stronger, heavier "high pressure air" bottle with a regulator (and its associated cost and complexity) to serve the same function.

This makes CO₂ far more suited to a bicycle repair kit due to:

• small size
• low weight
• low cost
• reliability (simplicity)

This video of supercritical carbon dioxide provides an interesting window (both literal and figurative) into the phase behavior described in the articles above:

I believe you will find these articles informative:

• The hidden life of a CO₂ cartridge [PDF]

• The CO₂ Cartridge … an Under-Appreciated Marvel of Technology! — George Fox Lang [PDF]

At room temperature (below the 31°C/87.8°F critical temperature) a CO₂ bottle is to a practical extent self-regulating. This is not possible with simple compressed air. You would need a larger, stronger, heavier "high pressure air" bottle with a regulator (and its associated cost and complexity) to serve the same function.

This makes CO₂ far more suited to a bicycle repair kit due to:

• small size
• low weight
• low cost
• reliability (simplicity)

I believe you will find these articles informative:

• The hidden life of a CO₂ cartridge [PDF]

• The CO₂ Cartridge … an Under-Appreciated Marvel of Technology! — George Fox Lang [PDF]

At room temperature (below the 31°C/87.8°F critical temperature) a CO₂ bottle is to a practical extent self-regulating. This is not possible with simple compressed air. You would need a larger, stronger, heavier "high pressure air" bottle with a regulator (and its associated cost and complexity) to serve the same function.

This makes CO₂ far more suited to a bicycle repair kit due to:

• small size
• low weight
• low cost
• reliability (simplicity)

This video of supercritical carbon dioxide provides an interesting window (both literal and figurative) into the phase behavior described in the articles above: