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Q: Can your lungs store several hours worth of oxygen?
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What substance in muscle seems able to store oxygen temporarily?

Myoglobin is synthesized in cells and imparts the reddish-brown color of skeletal muscle tissue. Like hemoglobin, myoglobin can combine loosely with oxygen. This ability to temporarily store oxygen reduces a muscle's requirement for a continuous blood supply during muscular contraction.


Does sugar temporarily store energy?

sugar is not an energy storing substance it does store energy or make energy for about two hours after two hours you crash which means you either feel tired or lost of energy.


What to the large numbers of carbon-hydrogen bonds in lipids do?

They either: a) make lipids polar. b) store more energy than the carbon-oxygen bonds in other organic compounds. c) allow lipids to dissolve water. d) are found in the carboxyl group at the end of the lipid. The Answer is: B- Store more energy than the carbon-oxygen bonds in other organic compounds.


What substance in muscle stores oxygen temporarily?

Myoglobin is synthesized in muscle cells and imparts the reddish-brown color of skeletal muscle tissue. Like hemoglobin, myoglobin can combine loosely with oxygen. This ability to temporarily store oxygen reduces a muscle's requirement for a continuous blood supply during muscular contraction.


What is an oxygen concentrator?

An oxygen concentrator is a system that selectively removes nitrogen from a gas source in order to provide an oxygen-enriched product gas stream. you can check online store for the details of product, like oxygenvip, oxygensolve. these websites must have an oxygen generator suitable for you.

Related questions

Can your bloodstream store oxygen?

Your bloodstream can't store oxygen for an extended period; it just transports it from the lungs to where it is needed.


Does the lungs store urine?

No, the [urinary] bladder does. The lungs are involved in the delivery of oxygen to the body and the excretion of carbon dioxide.


What do penguins breathe with?

Penguins use their lungs to breath.


When is the most oxygen absorbed by the lungs?

when you are running and if u continue to run your lungs will get bigger and will be able to store more air


How can you breathe through your mouths and nose?

Your lungs circulate oxygen every time you inhale and exhale. They travel through your body when you inhale to the lungs and the lungs store the oxygen, and as you exhale, carbon dioxide from the air is released.


Why cant body store large amount of oxygen?

because your lungs arnt that big


Where is the largest store of oxygen in the body?

In your blood. The protein hemoglobin carries oxygen-molecules between the lungs and the peripheral tissues and organs.


Why does the human cell looks like candy?

Because your body needs oxygen. They have a dent to store oxygen and carry it from the lungs, to the rest of the body.


How and where do blue whales store air?

Whales store air In their lungs and oxygen in their blood. Humans do the same thing, but we're not as good at as whales.


Do the lungs store oxygen?

No, they do not. Blood flows through the lung and during that time, the lungs fill up our RBCs (Red Blood Cells) with oxygen which is transmitted to all parts of our body.


What does the alveoli do in the human bdy?

some pockets in your lungs that store air in for brief.They take oxygen in and bring it out as carbon dioxide.


What happens to the food you have eaten as it goes to the stomach?

it goes in to your esophagus and is store in the stomach in several hours.