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They do slide along the electron transport chain, but not onto molecules of ATP. The motive power of these electrons are used to pump protons into the outer lumen of the mitochondria. There the protons build up until there is a powerful enough gradient so that they come down that gradient and through the ATP synthase, a rotary enzyme that uses the flow of protons to attach a phosphate group onto ADP and thus ATP is synthesized.

The electrons emerge from the last electron transport complex and there oxygen takes them up with the spent protons and water results.

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