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Oxygen IS soluble in water... how else do you think the fishes are breathing?
Edit: This is the correct answer.
Oxygen has poor solubility in water. When you bubble the gas through water, it will exit water unchanged in form.
Fishes do not literally "breathe" underwater. The sea is rich in oxygen, when the fishes open their mouth, sea water rushes in. The gills will then open when the mouth closes.
When sea water exits from the fish's gill, oxygen is absorbed into the bloodstream via OSMOSIS by the blood vessels.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoOxygen is lighter than the density of water. The Oxygen will rise and form bubbles. See related link below.
A portion of the oxygen would dissolve into the water. This process is how fish and other aquatic animals "breathe" under water.
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What would happen if you mixed water with household bleach and bleached your hair?
Hair loss, a severely burned scalp, and hospitalization will occur if one mixed water and household bleach and applied it to human hair.
What happen when they were no forests?
there would be no oxygen
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If hexane is mixed with water, they cannot be mixed completely together. They are both immiscible, so if mixing is attempted, only a two-layer solution will remain.
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What would happen if lily pads were removed from pond?
The wetland would be warn away by erosion.
What would happen if you mixed fire with oxygen?
it would make the fire get bigger
What would happen if there was no hydrogen and oxygen in water?
Then the water would not exist.
What would happen to salt it was mixed with water?
The salt would dissolve, which you can reverse by boiling the water.
What would happen if you mixed ink and water?
The ink would mix into the water and become diluted.
What happens when water molecule and oxygen molecule are put in the contain what?
Nothing would happen. You would just have a mixture of water and oxygen.
What would conduct electricity when mixed with water salt oxygen sugar or oil?
salt
Would salt sugar oil or oxygen conduct electricity when mixed with water?
salt
When hydrogen and oxygen are mixed they form water then why exist in gaseous form?
very high temperature is needed to combine hydrogen and oxygen. at that temperature, water exists in gaseous form Oxygen exists as a gas in our atmosphere, because there isn't very much hydrogen in the atmosphere. If the Earth's atmosphere contained a substantial amount of hydrogen mixed with the oxygen, it would be an explosive mixture. Any spark would set it off. They the oxygen and hydrogen would combine to form water, and we would be left without enough oxygen to breathe.
What gas do eels need to live?
Oxygen. Living things, even ones with gills, need oxygen. The gills filter the oxygen out of the water. If you had a fishtank that did not have plants or something that mixed oxygen into the water, the fish or eels would suffocate.
What happens when drinking water get mixed with sewage?
it would taste pretty bad because the oxygen levels in the water would decrease making it less sterile to drink
What inflammable gas mixes with oxygen to form water?
Oxygen is actually a part of Water. The formula of Water is H2O or Hydrogen2(2 atoms) Oxygen. So since oxygen is part of water, if the Earth had no more oxygen, we could get it from water, but water would evaporate because there is no oxygen. But since Oxygen is lighter that Hydrogen, if it's not mixed, it will rise, rise to the surface.
What would happen to water with no carbon?
There is no carbon in water. Water is made up of 2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
