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Why is the distance between the air in an alveolus and the blood in an alveolar capillary is less than 11000th of a millimetre?
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∙ 11y ago
Around the lungs,the blood is separated from the air inside each alveolus by only two cell layers; the cells making up the wall of the alveolus and the capillary wall itself. This is a distance of less than a thousandth of a millimetre. Because the air in the alveolus has a higer concentration of oxygen than the blood entering the capillary network, oxygen diffuses from the air across the wall of the alveolus and into the blood. That is why the distance is important.
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Why is the distance between the air in an alveolus and the blood in an alveolar capillary is less than 1 1000th of a millimetre important?
easy efficient exchange between air and blood
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A millimetre. A millimetre is a tenth of a cm
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Is millimetre a distance?
Yes 1 mm or millimeter is equal to 1/1000th of a meter.
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