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It is absorbed through blood vessels in the lungs from the air you breathe in as it passes through a selectively permeable membrane.
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Please understand air itself does not get into your blood indeed bubbles of air in your blood would kill you. Air is made up of about 80% Nitrogen and 20% Oxygen and it is the Oxygen that is needed in you blood. This Oxygen is breathed (with air) into the lungs down all the tubes into little air sacks called alveoli. The skin of the alveoli is thin and well supplied with small blood vesicles called capillaries. The Oxygen passes across this skin and is captured in the structure of a molecule called hemoglobin in your red blood cells. It travels in the blood as Oxyhemoglobin to the rest of the body where it is used in life processes. At the same time the hemoglobin transports used oxygen (in the form of Carbon dioxide (CO2)) back to the lungs where it is released into the alveoli. When carrying CO2 the hemoglobin is called Carboxyheamoglobin and it is a deep red/blue color while Oxyheamoglobin is a cherry red color.
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How the air is exchanged from the lungs to the blood?
air exchange takes place at the juction of blood cappileries and alveoli where the pressure of air is high in alveoli and low in blood so air from alveoli rush into blood and CO2 from blood rush in to alveoli which is then breath out
Does blood vessels carry air?
Blood vessels do not carry air. Blood vessels carry blood, and this blood can carry dissolved gas molecules.
What happens when the air and the blood mixes?
Air and blood in a medical setting, such as dialysis are not supposed to mix. When blood and air mix, the clotting process begins to occur.
How does oxygen that is in the air get into your blood?
lungs pumps air to the heart and heart pumps air around body through blood
What kind of mixtures are air and blood?
Homogeneous mixtures are the type of mixtures that air and blood are labeled.
Will O2 diffuse from air to blood or from blood to the alveolar air?
It will be absorbed from the air into your lungs. Then when it reachs the alveolus it will diffuse from the alveolus into the blood capillaries down an oxygen concentration through diffusion where it will combine with the heamoglobin in the Red Blood Cells.
What gases are exchanges in air sacs?
The air sacs (alveoli) have a very large total surface area and a very good blood supply. There is an exchange of gases between the air sacs and their surrounding capillary blood vessels. Oxygen diffuses from the air sac into the blood. Carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood into the air sac.
Which of these is an aqueous solution air sand blood or plastic?
Blood (A+)
What has more oxygen air sacs or blood?
air sacs
When air hits a blue blood what color is?
? Are you asking what color does blue blood turn after it comes in contact with air? Red!
What is the name of the organ that you use to breathe in oxygen?
the air goes into your lungs. In your lungs there are billions of tiny air sacs. Surrounding each air sac is a network of blood capillaries. The air sacs and the blood capillaries are separated by a thin membrane. Across this membrane the air sacs give the blood capillaries oxygen and they blood capillaries give the air sacs carbon dioxide. We breathe out this carbon dioxide!
What type of blood is being carried in the blue vessels?
regular blood. blood is blue before it touches air. When it touches air, like when you bleed, it turns red.
