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Large venous air embolisms (centimeters) may lead to death if they become lodged in the heart. if big enough they can cause the heart to loose prime and as a result stop the bood from flowing from the right ventricle to the lungs.
Gas embolism into an artery, termed arterial gas embolism, or AGE, is a more serious matter than in a vein, since a gas bubble in an artery may directly cause stoppage of blood flow to an area fed by the artery. The symptoms of AGE depend on the area of blood flow, and may be those of stroke or heart attack if the brain or heart, respectively, are affected. The amount of arterial gas embolism which causes symptoms depends on location, but in the brain may be a bubble with a volume only a fraction of a milliliters.
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When the pressure of a gas is reduced it gets colder.
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It goes up
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No. Carbon Dioxide is a waste gas and is removed from the blood stream.
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It does not change, unless a chemical reaction in the gas happens.
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CO2 gets exhaled. Excess gas in the blood is released in the lungs.
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What happens when chicken bone gets stuck in gas tank
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what happens to a gas as pressure is reduced?
When the pressure of a gas is reduced it gets colder.
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corrosion
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Carbon Dioxide
What is the primary gas blood gets rid of?
carbon dioxide
Primary gas that the blood gets rid of?
Carbon Dioxide, although it is largely used by the blood in the buffer system. It is still the most expelled gas from the blood
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The gas gets colder. Get it cold enough, it becomes a liquid.
What you the primary gas that the blood gets rid of?
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The pressure increases if the container gets smaller or the gas heats up. The pressure decreases if the container gets bigger or the gas cools off.
