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Why do you exhale more carbon dioxide than you breathe in oxygen?
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∙ 14y ago
Carbon dioxide is an end product of the matabolism in humans and other higher animals. Sugars, fats and amino acids are broken down to produce energy for the body and carbon dioxide is an unwanted by-product which is returned to the lungs and exhaled.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 12y agoThere is more Carbon Dioxide (CO2) when we breathe outbecause some of the Oxygen (O2) is absorbed into the blood via the lungs, and CO2 is removed from the blood, into the lungs. (O2 converts to CO2 in the body)
However, this is only a small change so we still breathe out Oxygen: (which is why CPR works)
Breathing In: 21% O2, 0.04% CO2
Breathing Out: 17% O2, 4% CO2 (about 4% change in both)
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∙ 14y agoAt the start, yes you need to prefer the oxygen
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∙ 11y agoYes, exhaled air contains more carbon dioxide than inhaled air.
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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.
People breathe in oxygen molecules from the air and exhale carbon dioxide molecules. Because of this the air is full of carbon dioxide and oxygen mixed together. What is this an example of?
an increase in entropy
Oxygen is added to an ecosysem by?
Oxygen is given off by plants as they absorb carbon dioxide. It's like how animals breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, except plants absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen.
How do plants and animals mantain the level of oxygen in the atmosphere?
Animals breathe in oxygen and let out carbon dioxide. Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
How do you describe the movement oxygen and carbon dioxide between living things in the environment?
It is a cyclic movement. There are an oxygen cycle, a carbon cycle and a nitrogen cycle. Oxygen is inhaled by animals, who them exhale it as carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is inhaled by green plant life, where it undergoes photosynthesis, and is exhaled as oxygen. The carbon remaining in the plant as biomass. The carbon in biomass is eaten by animals. Animals then convert carbon to carbon dioxide and exhale it. It then undergoes photosynthesis, and thre carbon component is retained in the plant as biomass.
Can you reuse oxygen?
Yes we breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Plants take in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen.
What Gas do you breathe?
We Breathe in a mixture of Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen, and exhale Carbon Dioxide
What is it called when you breathe in to get oxygen and breathee out to release carbon dioxide?
When you breathe in you inhale and when you breathe out you exhale
How carbon dioxide and oxygen cycle in your body?
We breathe in oxygen which is supplied from plants and we exhale carbon dioxide which then plants take in for energy
What do you inhale when breathing?
Oxygen gas (when we exhale, we breathe out carbon dioxide).
When you inhale you breathe out the waste gas?
when you inhale you breath oxygen when you exhale carbon dioxide
What mammals breathe?
Mammals inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, as do all animals.
What gas do humans need to breathe in order to live?
Oxygen we inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide
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 trees breathe in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen?
All trees, plants, flowers and blades of grass take in carbon dioxide, store the carbon and release the oxygen.
Do cows breath out oxygen?
Yes, but in the form of carbon dioxide, with contains two atoms of oxygen and one of carbon. Cows don't breathe out the pure form of oxygen; they breathe in oxygen as well as nitrogen from the atmosphere.
What is the gas in a balloon that a human blows up?
well since we breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, it would have to be carbon Dioxide
