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It is gas exchange in the alveoli that gets the carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the blood and the oxygen (O2) in. What is actually going on is that the partial pressure of CO2 in the blood is greater than that of the CO2 in the air. The CO2 will diffuse out of the blood into the air, driven by that difference in partial pressure. And diffusion, driven by the higher partial pressure of O2 in the air drives that oxygen in the air into the blood. A link can be found below to an animated short that explains the process. Check it out.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoIt's not actually in your bloodstream. Our bodies convert oxygen (O2) to carbon dioxide (CO2) and we exhale it. Trees and other green plants convert carbon dioxide to oxygen and emit it. Cool, huh?
Are you confusing carbon DIoxide (CO2) with carbon MONoxide (CO)? Carbon monoxide can attach to hemoglobin where oxygen usually does, resulting in poisoning. Moving to a normal room air environment will cause oxygen to replace the carbon monoxide, and in an emergency a high oxygen environment will do so faster.
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∙ 12y agoCO2 is attached to the red blood cells as a result of work being done. This is exchanged for O2 in the lungs for the next time round. The above is in error.
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∙ 14y agoIt is not possible to reduce carbon dioxide and it is impossible because, you breath in oxygen and carbon dioxide is what you breath out and you can not reduce what you breath out.
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What removes carbon dioxide from the bloodstream?
lungs .
What Organ Separates Oxygen And Carbon Dioxide?
I wouldn't exactly characterize it as separating carbon dioxide and oxygen, however, I think the answer you are looking for is the lungs which takes up oxygen into the bloodstream and expels carbon dioxide out of the bloodstream into the lungs so we can breathe it out again.
Why doesn't carbon dioxide enter the bloodstream through the air scars?
carbon dioxide can not enter the bloodstream through the air scars because if it does there would be a hard time to breathe carbon dioxide doesn't have to do with anything about the air scares in the breathing area
How is carbon dioxide transported throughout the vertebrate?
Through the bloodstream.
What Carbon dioxide is removed from the bloodstream by?
lungs
What removes carbon dioxide from the bloodstream?
lungs .
How does carbon dioxide is transferred into the bloodstream as a carbon atom?
it is transmittid from the brain
What organ removes Carbon dioxide from the bloodstream?
The LUNGS
The goal of breathing is to delivers what?
To deliver oxygen to the bloodstream and to remove carbon dioxide from the bloodstream.
How does the carbon dioxide get out of the bloodstream back into his lungs to breathed out?
The carbon dioxide is exhaled.
The largest amount of carbon dioxide is transported in the bloodstream in the form of carbonic anhydrase?
most carbon dioxide in the bloodstream is transported as bicarbonate through the blood back to the body
What Organ Separates Oxygen And Carbon Dioxide?
I wouldn't exactly characterize it as separating carbon dioxide and oxygen, however, I think the answer you are looking for is the lungs which takes up oxygen into the bloodstream and expels carbon dioxide out of the bloodstream into the lungs so we can breathe it out again.
Why doesn't carbon dioxide enter the bloodstream through the air scars?
carbon dioxide can not enter the bloodstream through the air scars because if it does there would be a hard time to breathe carbon dioxide doesn't have to do with anything about the air scares in the breathing area
What gas in the bloodstream determines respiratory rate?
Carbon Dioxide
How does the carbon dioxide get out of the bloodstream back into lungs to be breathed out?
Diffusion.
How does carbon dioxide get out of the bloodstream back into the lungs to be breathe out?
Diffusion.
How does carbon dioxide get out of the bloodstream back into the lungs to be breathed out?
Diffusion.
