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Is there more carbon dioxide than oxygen in the air you exhale?
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∙ 13y ago
Yes! If you are asking this you are dumb!
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What goes into our nose when we breath?
When we inhale through the nose, we breathe in oxygen and some carbon dioxide. When we exhale, there is more carbon dioxide than oxygen. This is because the oxygen is absorbed and converted by the lungs into carbon dioxide.
Why is carbon dioxide given out more than taken in?
It is the product of respiration. Animals including Humans breath in oxygen and exhale Carbon Dioxide
Why exhaling carbon dioxide can not put out a fire?
When you exhale, you are not exhaling carbon dioxide. You are exhaling air with a slightly higher-than-normal concentration of carbon dioxide and a slightly lower-than-normal concentration of oxygen. Carbon dioxide extinguishes fire by forcing oxygen away from the fuel, but the air you exhale still has more than enough oxygen to support combustion.
Where is the carbon dioxide that you exhale produced?
The human body uses oxygen in cellular respiration to create energy by oxidizing carbohydrates (mostly sugars), fats, or protein. This process produces carbon dioxide, water, and other chemical by-products. The carbon dioxide is brought through the bloodstream to the lungs, where it is exchanged for more oxygen. The lungs exhale the carbon dioxide along with some water vapor and substantial remaining oxygen.
When did the carbon-oxygen cycle start to change?
In my own opinion and un-tested hypothesis.... that carbon oxygen cycle start to change when there is no more plants to give oxygen and get carbon dioxide and there is no animals and humans that inhale oxygen and give off or exhale carbon dioxide.
Which two gases are which you exhale more than inhale?
Carbon dioxide and water vapour.
What is sent out of the body every time you exhale?
When you exhale, you actually release oxygen, nitrogen and other gasses. But most of all you release more carbon dioxide. People often think that the lungs must be full of carbon dioxide but they are not. The percentage of gas in the lungs that is highest is nitrogen. It isn't used by your body but is important in keeping your lungs inflated. But all-in-all, you exhale more carbon dioxide than you inhale.
How can you breathe out more CO2?
Yes. You exhale carbon dioxide and oxygen. You breathe out normal air although the cabon dioxide level is greater and there is less oxygen.
What gas is formed during respiration?
The gas that is formed during respiration is carbon dioxide. Humans breathe in a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide. Although, only oxygen is used. When humans exhale they release all of the nitrogen and more carbon dioxide than was inhaled.
Why is it good to plant more trees?
It is good to plant more trees because they produce oxygen from the carbon-dioxide we exhale so if we didn't have trees uhh...no oxygen?
Do humans inhale carbon dioxide?
Humans breathe in whatever happens to be in the air when they breathe in. If there is carbon dioxide then they will breathe it in as well as nitrogen and oxygen. However they only use the oxygen for respiration so they breathe out everything else with extra carbon dioxide.
How does plants and animals use carbon dioxide and oxygen in different ways?
Plants obtain carbon from the atmosphere by breaking CO2 apart and releasing the oxygen during photosynthesis. Animals eat the plants, excrete an undigested portion of the carbon, and exhale the rest through respiration of the carbon with atmospheric oxygen (or in the case of marine animals--oxygen dissolved in water).
