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What keeps the lungs from collapsing when the airways are open to the atmosphere?
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Transpulmonary pressure
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What is the most abundant gas in our atmosphere?
Nitrogen is the most abundant gas but we don't really use it as a gas. It does help keep our lungs inflated.
Why would it be harder to breath at the top of a mountain?
because the higher up you go the closer to earths atmosphere you are and it gets stuffy and the air is harder on your lungs
What is diaphragam?
The diaphragam is the part of your body that your lungs rest on. For example, when it is said that 'the wind was knocked out of me', it is because the person was hit in the diaphragam. This thing helps the lungs move up and down respectively.
What is the function of the launch lungs on a rocket?
a small camera on the water tank
Can you breathe on Mars?
Not without the aid of a breathing apparatus. Mar's atmosphere is nearly 96 % carbon dioxide.Humans cannot breathe on Mars. The atmosphere is thin and made almost entirely of carbon dioxide, a poisonous gas.Without being encapsulated with an oxygen supply? If you did it wouldn't be long before you were not breathing at all.The atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide (what we breathe out), and very tiny amounts of oxygen (what we breathe in). So air there does not have what we need, to breathe it successfully, but that's not the entire problem. Mars is also very cold. In fact you'd freeze to death before realizing that you were suffocating.No you could not breath the air on Mars, first the atmosphere is very thin (it is at a very low pressure 0.6 kPa, compared to Earth's 101.3 kPa) and second the atmosphere contains no oxygen.The atmosphere on Mars consists of 95% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen, 1.6% argon. The atmosphere is also quite dusty, giving the Martian sky a tawny color when seen from the surface.
Attacks the airways and lungs?
Choking Agents
What is the system involves the lungs and airways?
respiratory
What are the advantages of a whales lungs collapsing when diving?
don't surface as much
Does Asthma cause fluid in the lungs?
It can cause a buildup of phlegm and mucus in the airways, but not in the lungs.
What helps us to live?
Your heart, lungs, blood, epidermis, kidneys, pretty much every organ in you body. Also the atmosphere. The atmosphere keeps the oxygen in earth, but if we keep on polluting our atmosphere it will dissolve and we will all die.
What does bronchi mean in science?
larger airways in the lungs
What is the immediate concern of chlorine exposure?
airways and lungs
What are the main airways that reach into the lungs?
Trachea
Why smokers feel breathless?
Cigarettes, over time, hurt the lungs and constrict the airways to the lungs, therefore, air has to push through the airways, making a breathless feeling to the smoker
How carry the lungs?
Our lungs are surrounded by bones and it keeps the lungs in place.
How many kilometres of airways bring air in and out of the lungs?
A lot.
Does Asthma is a tightening of the airways of the lungs that results from either undue inflammation of the lining of the airways to specific triggering factors?
true
