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  OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR   The entire world is currently dwindling due to the COVID pandemic. The second wave of COVID hit hard in India where a lot of patients needed external oxygen for their survival. As a result, there was a deprivation of oxygen concentrators in many hospitals all over the nation. Also, other nations had started to donate/export the oxygen concentrators to India. A lot of fuzz has occurred in this pandemic related to oxygen concentrators. So, it would be essential to know some trivial facts about this life-saving piece of medical equipment. WHAT IS AN OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR? An oxygen concentrator is a device that concentrates the oxygen from a gas supply by selectively removing nitrogen to supply an oxygen-enriched product gas stream.  An oxygen concentrator provides supplemental or extra oxygen to a patient with breathing issues. The device consists of a compressor, sieve bed filter, oxygen tank, pressure value, and a nasal cannula (or an oxygen mask). L...