occurs. The equation for photosynthesis is 6 CO2 + 6H2O + light energy=C6H12O6 + 6O2 meaning that when a plant cell absorbs carbon dioxide and water alongside sunlight then the plant will put off glucose and oxygen gas in result. This process is where humans and other heterotrophs get their oxygen to survive. Sunlight is captured through a pigment called chlorophyll‚ which absorbs every color light wave expect green‚
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Body temperature When we exercise the body has to work harder‚ the body temperature would increase this is due to organs having to work harder to get oxygen to muscles. The metabolic rate that produces more energy has to increase in order for more energy to be released. The heart has to pump more blood around the body in order to deliver oxygen to the working muscles so they can carry on working at that capacity. What mechanisms are there to cool the body down? Sweating-glands are stimulated
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cardio-respiratory system to remove the waste products and carbon dioxide from the cells and provide more oxygen for the working cells. This surge of extra energy that is needed requires the heart to pump faster and harder in order to increase the volume of blood being pumped there is an increase in beats per minute. A redistribution of blood can be given out to supply the areas with a higher demand for oxygen and away from the areas of less demand‚ this is done via the vascular system. In order to do this
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Automobiles Medical Effects of Carbon Monoxide Carbon monoxide inhibits the blood’s ability to carry oxygen to body tissues including vital organs such as the heart and brain. When CO is inhaled‚ it combines with the oxygen carrying hemoglobin of the blood to form carboxyhemoglobin (COHb). Once combined with the hemoglobin‚ that hemoglobin is no longer available for transporting oxygen. How quickly the carboxyhemoglobin builds up is a factor of the concentration of the gas being inhaled
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present in the heart and skeletal muscles‚ while haemoglobin is only found in red blood cells. The function of myoglobin is to bind and release oxygen to the muscle cells‚ whereas the function of hemoglobin is to transport oxygen from the lungs to the tissues‚ and transport carbon dioxide from tissues back to the lungs. Although both molecules bind to oxygen‚ their structures differ. While looking at myoglobin’s structure‚ it is evident as consisting of one polypeptide chain‚ and within this chain
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Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (lah vwah ZYAY) was one of the best-known French scientists and was an important government official. His theories of combustion‚ his development of a way to classify the elements and the first modern textbook of chemistry led to his being known as the father of modern chemistry. He contributed to much of the research in the field of chemistry. He is quoted for saying‚ "Nothing is lost‚ nothing is created‚ everything is transformed." Lavoisier
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determine whether the metal bonded to a Sulfur atom or an Oxygen atom of the DMSO. After analyzing the IR spectrum‚ it was determined that S=O shifted to a lower wavenumber in CuCl2~2DMSO and that S=O shifted to a higher wavenumber in RuCl2~4DMSO. Introduction Depending on the metal‚ it will bond to DMSO through its oxygen or sulfur atom. This will cause the frequency of the S=O bond absorption to move depending on which atom it bonds to. For oxygen bond the frequency will be low due to the weakened
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with methyl salicylate and sodium hydroxide as the reagent. The polar oxygen accepts the electrons from now positively charged hydrogen. The positively charged sodium disassociates leaving the hydroxide ion with a negative Scheme 1 shows the mechanisms that were demonstrated during the synthesis of Aspirin. charge that attracts to the positively charged hydrogen. A more stable structure is formed when the charge on the oxygen moves from being a lone pair to forming a double bond and the ether
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activities. Mitochondria are also involved in other cell processes such as cell division and growth‚ as well as cell death. They convert oxygen and nutrients into adenosine triphosphate (ATP). ATP is the chemical energy "currency" of the cell that powers the cell’s metabolic activities. This process is called aerobic respiration and is the reason animals breathe oxygen. Mitochondria are bounded by a double membrane. Each of these membranes is a phospholipid bilayer with embedded proteins. The outermost
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well as a widely found oxide. Formed when silicon is exposed to the oxygen in the atmosphere‚ it is a giant covalent molecule with strong electrostatic forces of attraction between the adjacent non-metal oxygen and silicon atoms. Silicon Dioxide occurs in 13 different structural modifications‚ but the basic building block of these modifications is the SIO4 unit‚ where the atoms form a tetrahedral arrangement consisting of four oxygen atoms surrounding each central Si atom‚ resulting in a strong covalent
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