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you change the shape of your chest (intercostal muscles & diaphram)

which increases the volume of your chest cavity

the lung is sucked along with the chest wall (partial vacume in the plural space)

lowering the pressure within the air spaces of the lung.

Air flows from higher pressure to lower.

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