Carbon monoxide (CO) is a poisonous gas, because it replaces the oxygen gas (O2) in your lungs and blood when inhaled. Without oxygen for aerobic cellular respiration, the cells in your body make less energy and eventuallly die, since all organisms (living things) need energy to live.
Mammals (including humans) depend on oxygen gas for their vital energy.
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∙ 15y agoOxygen in the air we breathe is in molecular form (O2). Once it has combined with Carbon to form CO2, it can no longer be used by the body. In fact, the body rids itself of carbon waste in CO2 form. If we breathed in CO2 at more than a few %, we would suffocate.
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∙ 14y agoNo. Carbon dioxide is not toxic in itself, it merely inhibits absorbing oxygen.
Breathing pure carbon dioxide is the equivalent of holding your breath in respiratory terms (although you will get a blazing headache for the increased CO2 uptake in your blood). So long as you take a normal breath afterwards, you would be fine.
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∙ 13y agoWhen you inhale carbon dioxide your lungs tighten and your breathing becomes a lot less fuctional.
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if you breathe it in, you'll die.
They will die
Air contains oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and other compounds. We take carbon dioxide into our lungs all the time, but our lungs keep the oxygen. However, if you were in a room with ONLY carbon dioxide, you would die--not from carbon dioxide per se, but from lack of oxygen.
Carbon dioxide is important to people as it plays a crucial role in the process of photosynthesis, which is how plants produce oxygen and carbohydrates. It is also a major greenhouse gas, helping to regulate Earth's temperature. However, too much carbon dioxide emissions from human activities can contribute to climate change, which has negative impacts on the environment and human health.
Carbon dioxide is dissolved into the sea. Marine organisms use the dissolved carbon dioxide to make shells of calcium carbonate. When these organisms die, they fall to the sea bed. Layers of dead organisms and sediment build up on the sea bed. These layers are compacted and compressed to form sedimentry rock.
trees breathe out oxygen we breathe out carbon dioxide and trees breathe in carbon dioxide SAVE THE RAINFORESTS OR WE'LL DIE!!
All animals breathe one way or another, to get oxygen carbon dioxide out. It's that or die.
well they take a huge breathe, then hang out under water for a while. Carbon dioxide is what Mammals breathe out after taking in oxygen. hence if they could not hold alot of carbon dioxide... they would probably die.
Plants "breathe" carbon dioxide. They use it in photosynthesis. If carbon dioxide was completely wiped out, plants would die. During photosynthesis, plants turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, which we humans breathe. Once the plants die, humans would also die from lack of oxygen. Carbon dioxide is not something we should try to get rid of completely. The bulk of the carbon dioxide is created by nature. Man produces 3 to 6% of the CO2, the rest is natural.
When they breathe out. Also after they die, during decomposition.
PLants help people many ways. they breathe in carbon dioxide, which is what we breathe out. they breathe out oxygen, which is what we breathe in. without plants, we'd die from suffocation.
Carbon monoxide is what people die from, Carbon dioxide is used to produce the bubbles in sodas and sparkling waters.
Plants breathe in carbon dioxide (CO2) and give off oxygen. Without CO2 they will die.
One reason is cuz u need it to breathe its photosythesis. We breathe out carbon dioxide plants breathe that in and breathe out oxygen which we breathe in. Without plants we would die.
A shark can die instantly if you shoot it in the gills. The reason is because that is where they breathe and if they cant breathe they will die.
Yes, but you would die for sure. The combustion reaction would take all the oxigen and you will breathe carbon dioxide/carbon monoxide and that would kill you.
Yes they do. Its part of the carbon cycle. When plants give off carbon dioxide, animals breath it in, when they die, scavengers eat them then decomposer breaks the dead carcasses back into the basic materials.