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its carried by the blood through a darker substance. Combined with haemoglobin as carboxyhaemoglobin,as bicarbonates in plasma and By dissolving in blood plasma.

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There are three ways in which carbon dioxide is transported in the blood stream:

  1. Approximately 5% of carbon dioxide in the blood is transported as dissolved carbon dioxide in the blood plasma.
  2. Approximately 10% of carbon dioxide in the blood is transported bound to haemoglobin and plasma proteins. Carbon dioxide binds with haemoglobin to produce carbaminohaemoglobin.
  3. The majority of carbon dioxide in the blood is transported as bicarbonate ions. Carbon dioxide binds with water to form carbonic acid, it then dissociates to form bicarbonate ions.
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The majority is converted to bicarbonate ions (HCO3-) and is presumably dissolved in the plasma as well.

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Bybicarbonate ions in the plasma.

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Cardonic acid

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What are the three forms in which carbon dioxide is carried by blood?

Two of the forms in which carbon dioxide is carried by blood is bicarbonate ion, and carbaminohemoglobi. The last form in the blood is a dissolved in plasma.


What materials are carried in plasmas?

Plasma is a component of blood. The materials that are carried in plasma are minerals, vitamins, glucose, carbon dioxide, hormones and urea.


How isCarbon Dioxide is carried in the blood?

the same way oxygen is, through your cells. the cells absorb oxygen, so same for carbon dioxide.


How does the oxygen that you breathe in get to the rest of your body?

You inhale oxygen/ It flows to the lungs. The lungs transfer the oxygen to the blood stream in exchange of carbon dioxide , which is exhaled. The blood stream flows to all parts of the body, and exchanged the oxygen for carbon dioxide, in muscles and other body organs. The carbon dioxide is then carried to the lungs and exhaled. This then begs the question, 'What happens to the carbon dioxide?. Carbon dioxide is a heavy gas and fall to the ground. Whereupon in is inhalked by green leafed plants; grass/leaves etc., In these plant, under the process of photsynthesis and in the presence of UV(sunlight) light, the plant breaks down the carbon dioxide into carbon , which is kept in the plant as biomass. The oxygen is then released back into the atmosphere for animals to breath. It is a natural cyclic process. That's putting it very simply. I am sure there are more complxities in the system.


Why is carbon monoxide more dangerous than carbon dioxide?

Carbon monoxide bonds the the hemoglobin in out red blood cells. This renders our blood unable to transport oxygen. Carbon dioxide does not do this.

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How are the carbon dioxide carried by the blood?

oxygen is carried by the red blood cells, but carbon dioxide is separated from the air you breathe in the lungs, then exhaled.


75 percent of carbon dioxide is carried by what?

75 percent of carbon dioxide is carried by Rowan Atkinson, in the blood.


What is carried in the blood that dissolves in the blood plasma?

carbon dioxide


How oxygen and carbon dioxide are carried by the blood?

Mostly nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide.


What are the three forms in which carbon dioxide is carried by blood?

Two of the forms in which carbon dioxide is carried by blood is bicarbonate ion, and carbaminohemoglobi. The last form in the blood is a dissolved in plasma.


What does carbon dioxide do in the blood?

nothing it just carried by blood to out of the body


Oxygen and carbon dioxide are carried in the blood by?

Red blood cells.


Which part of the blood transport carbon dioxide and glucose?

Glucose is carried through the circulation in the blood plasma.


In which part of blood is carbon dioxide carried?

the bloody part


What do your cells do to get rid of they carbon dioxide they make?

The carbon dioxide diffuses into the plasma portion of the blood and is carried to the heart. From there it is carried to the lungs where it is released when you exhale.


How carbon dioxide get out your body?

carbon dioxide is expelled from cells into the blood stream, carried to the lungs, and exhaled.


What removes carbon dioxide from water and blood?

It is the lungs that remove carbon dioxide and water from blood. The majority of vertebrate animals have two lungs.