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When you breathe in oxygen you expel carbon dioxide, your bodies waste product. Your heart pumps blood from the right ventricle into the lungs where the CO2 (carbon dioxide) "jumps off" and the O2 (oxygen) "jumps on" the red blood cells. With the O2 being carried on little "handles" of the hemoglobin molecule of the red blood cells, it travels back into the heart from the lungs and is then pumped out into the body from the heart's left ventricle, through the aorta and into the body. The O2 is carried by the blood to every area and organ of the body, where it "nourishes" the cells. As the blood travels further from the heart and more waste builds, the CO2 content is higher than the O2 content and the CO2 waste is carried back to the heart by the blood, dumping its waste into the lungs and is then expelled in your breath. This gas exchange is made possible because of changes in pressure gradients.

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