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CO2 is NOT formed at or in or behind the lungs, it is excreted by the longs coming out of the blood fluid.
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The formula for the formation of carbon dioxide at the lungs is:
CO2(g) + H2O(l) -> H2CO3(aq)
This reaction occurs when carbon dioxide gas (CO2) combines with water (H2O) in the presence of the enzyme carbonic anhydrase, forming carbonic acid (H2CO3) in an aqueous solution.
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What removes carbon dioxide from the bloodstream?
lungs .
How does carbon dioxide from a cell in your hand leave the body Please not too detailed thanks?
The carbon dioxide is dissolved in your blood. The blood travels round the body, to the lungs. Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide are exchanged during breathing. The Carbon Dioxide is exhaled from the lungs, through the mouth.
Why is carbon dioxide released into the lungs?
Since the concentration of carbon dioxide is more in the blood vessels it simply diffuses towards the air in the lungs which has lesser concentration of it.
Carbon dioxide enters bloodstream through the air sacs?
Carbon dioxide is produced inside all the cells of the body, as a metabolic by-product. Carbon dioxide does not enter through the lungs, rather, it leaves through the lungs.
How carbon dioxide get out your body?
carbon dioxide is expelled from cells into the blood stream, carried to the lungs, and exhaled.
Carbon dioxide is to what as lungs are to lungs?
carbon dioxide
What gas is exhaled from the lungs?
carbon dioxide
How do lungs remove its carbon dioxide?
In lungs alveoli is present where exchange of gases takes place, when blood with carbon dioxide is reached lungs then these alveoli purify by removing carbon dioxide
How does the carbon dioxide get out of the bloodstream back into his lungs to breathed out?
The carbon dioxide is exhaled.
Which organ do we excrete most of our carbon dioxide from?
Carbon dioxide is excreted from the lungs.
Do the lungs take carbon dioxide from the blood?
No. Your lungs pass oxygen into the blood and also pass carbon dioxide to the air outside your body. Oxygen combines with carbon to form carbon dioxide. This happens in our muscles, among other places.
Where is carbon dioxide found in blood?
Hemoglobin carries oxygen from the lungs to the body and carbon dioxide back from the body to the lungs.
What is the concentration of oxygen in the lungs normally compared to carbon dioxide?
what is the concentration of oxygemnin the lungs normally compared to carbon dioxide
Does the respiratory system rid the body of carbon dioxide?
Blood containing carbon dioxide flows from veins throughout the body to the heart, and then the heart pumps it to the lungs. Small air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs remove the carbon dioxide from the blood and release it into the lungs where it is exhaled.
Where does blood get rid of carbon dioxide?
No. The red blood cells get oxygen at the lungs, not drop off carbon dioxide.
Why must carbon dioxide be breathed out?
carbon dioxide has to be breathed out because it can be harnful to the lungs
What is the ratio of oxygen to carbon dioxide in the lungs?
2/100 percent to the carbon dioxide
