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Humans ARE able to breathe under water. It is just complicated that only the talented beings can perform.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe basic reason is that your lungs can't extract the oxygen from the water. It only extracts oxygen from the air you inhale.
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Why cant people breathe in water?
According to many scientists and researches, people cannot breathe in water because water molecules cannot be absorbed by human lungs. Humans have lungs that do not have enough surface area to absorb enough oxygen from water. Our lungs are more much more adapted to air than water.
Can you breathe out all the air in your lungs?
try it and youll find out u cant breath out that last bit although about %98 goes out XD
How can humans live in Saturn?
No humans are not able to live on Saturn. There is a high concentration of Sulfur which is not able to be processed by human's lungs.
What is the different between a frogs nostril and a humans nostril?
The frog's inside nostril is on the roof of its mouth while the human's inside nostril is in the back of the mouth. The frog does not breathe through its skin alone. Adult frogs have paired, simple, saclike lungs. As in humans, air enters the body through two nostrils, passes through the windpipe, and is received by the lungs. The mechanism of breathing, however, is different in the frog from that in man. In humans, breathing is aided by the ribs, the diaphragm, and the chest muscles. The frog has no ribs or diaphragm, and its chest muscles are not involved in breathing. A frog may breathe by simply opening its mouth and letting air flow into the windpipe. However, it may also breathe with its mouth closed. The floor of the mouth is lowered, causing the frog's throat to "puff out." When the nostrils open, air enters the enlarged mouth. Then, with nostrils closed, the air in the mouth is forced into the lungs by contraction of the floor of the mouth.
Which part of the skeleton protects the heart and lungs?
no i cant answer
Why cant people breathe in water?
According to many scientists and researches, people cannot breathe in water because water molecules cannot be absorbed by human lungs. Humans have lungs that do not have enough surface area to absorb enough oxygen from water. Our lungs are more much more adapted to air than water.
Why cant you live under water?
cause you don't have gills but we have lungs to breathe the oxygen in water
Why dont humans breath through their skin?
Humans have water proof skin and that is why we cant breathe through it.
Why do you drown when you breathe in water?
Humans are developed to breathe air by gas exchange in the lungs. We do not have the physical capability, like fish, to have a gas exchange with water. -- Also, because your heart is pumping and you need a lot of oxygen for your blood. The same with any physical activity.
Why humans don't breath under water?
they cant breathe because if we do we can drink the water and possibly choke and die.
If babies can breathe in water in your belly then why cant we breathe under water?
Babies don't breathe the water in the womb. Their mothers breathe for them, and supply them with oxygen through the umbilical cord. Babies don't start breathing until they are born. Humans, well no mammal can breathe water, because our lungs can't get any oxygen from it. Although they do the same job, gills work in a slightly different manner, which allows fish to get oxygen from the water the way we get it from the air.
Can humans breathe oxygen and hydrogen combine?
no it is completely different are bodies cant breathe that only pure oxygen(o2). although fish can breathe the dissolved oxygen in water
Why cant a person live without lungs?
Because lungs are what make you breathe, and without breathing we would die.
What can kill a barrucuda?
humans fish for them so technically humans can trap them and they are taken out of the water so they then cant breathe and die. Or you could just get explosives and blow them up. Or if you cant do that try poisoned bait.
Why cant the blue whale breathe under water?
Blue whales are mammals. They breathe air with lungs, pretty much just like you and I. When they dive, they hold their breath.
Why cant a squid live on land?
Because squid do not have legs to walk, they can only swim, and they do not have lungs to breathe air.
How was lung cancer discover?
It was discover by when your lungs are stuck and messed up and you cant breathe
