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Exhaled air contains 16% oxygen and 21% when inhaled.

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How does concentration of inhaled and exhaled air differ?

Inhaled air contains more oxygen than carbon dioxide and other gases. Exhaled air contains mostly carbon dioxide as the inhaled oxygen was used up to create energy. Waste carbon dioxide (and other unwanted gases) is then let out of the body and the cycle continues. :)Gas exchangeGas% in inhaled air% in exhaled airOxygen2116Carbon dioxide0.044Nitrogen7979


What percentage of your blood works to carry oxygen throughout your body?

You have about 20% oxygen in inhaled air and negligible carbon bi oxide. You have about 4% carbon bi oxide in the exhaled air. That means 4% of the oxygen is absorbed from the blood. That makes it 4%/20%= 20% of the oxygen from the inhaled air is absorbed in your blood.


Will a candle burn longer in inhaled air or exhaled air?

Air contains about 21% oxygen, so the candle in air might only burn 21% as long as a candle in oxygen. Of course, that does not include other variables, like the candle burning in oxygen will burn hotter, melting the candle wax sooner.


Is air inhaled through the mouth is as clean as the air inhaled through the nose?

Air inhaled through the mouth is not as clean as air inhaled through the nose. Reason for this is that when we inhale air through our nose than it get filtered by hair present in our nose. But air inhaled through our mouth goes directly in without any filtration.


Explain the amount of various gases in an inhaled and an exhaled air?

Inhaled airNitrogen: 78%Oxygen: 21%Carbon Dioxide: 0.04%Water Vapour: 0.96%Exhaled AirNitrogen: 78%Oxygen: 17%Carbon Dioxide: 4%Water Vapour: 3%

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What is the concentration of oxygen inhaled during oxygen therapy dependent upon?

The concentration of oxygen inhaled depends upon the prescribed flow rate and the ventilatory minute volume (MV).


How does concentration of inhaled and exhaled air differ?

Inhaled air contains more oxygen than carbon dioxide and other gases. Exhaled air contains mostly carbon dioxide as the inhaled oxygen was used up to create energy. Waste carbon dioxide (and other unwanted gases) is then let out of the body and the cycle continues. :)Gas exchangeGas% in inhaled air% in exhaled airOxygen2116Carbon dioxide0.044Nitrogen7979


How does the oxygen and carbon dioxide content of exhaled air differ from inhaled air?

Exhaled air has more carbon dioxide and less oxygen than does inhaled air.


What level inhaled oxygen?

21% of the air we inhale is oxygen


Which contains more oxygen inhaled air or exhaled air?

Inhaled air contains more oxygen than exhaled air because the cells have not yet used that oxyginated air.


What percentage of inhaled air is oxygen?

About 21%.


Percentage of oxygen in inhaled air?

About 21%


Does inhale air has more oxygen or exhaled air?

Inhaled air is richer in oxygen than exhaled air.


Name a gas whose concentration is the same in inhaled air and exhaled air?

nitrogen


How Is Air Inhaled Air Different To Exhaled Air?

It is because, once the air is inhaled, the lungs absorb the oxygen in the air and releases only the remaining stale air. The air that goes in has a higher % of Oxygen and the air that comes out has a higher % of Carbon di oxide.


What is the differences between inhaled air and exhaled air?

Inhaled air contains a greater volume of oxygen than carbon dioxide. Exhaled air is the opposite, since after the exchange of gases in the lungs the carbon dioxide in the blood is transferred into the lungs. Exhaled air contains a greater volume of carbon dioxide than oxygen. Also, there is more water vapour in exhaled air than inhaled air.


What are the 3 main difference between the exhaled and inhaled air?

Exhaled air has less oxygen than inhaled air.Exhaled air has more carbon dioxide than inhaled air.Exhaled air is warmer that inhaled air.Maybe the first 2 are redundant, but I think that should work!