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Because there is more oxygen in an alveolus than in the blood around it oxygen diffuses?
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When there is more oxygen in an alveolus than in the blood around it oxygen diffuses from the capillaries to the veins. This is due to the high concentration of oxygen in the alveoli.
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What substance diffuses from an alveolus into a capillary?
Oxygen.
What makes the concentration of oxygen low in the alveolus?
Oxygen diffuses into the blood capillary
Why is the distance between the air in an alveolus and the blood in an alveolar capillary is less than 11000th of a millimetre?
Around the lungs,the blood is separated from the air inside each alveolus by only two cell layers; the cells making up the wall of the alveolus and the capillary wall itself. This is a distance of less than a thousandth of a millimetre. Because the air in the alveolus has a higer concentration of oxygen than the blood entering the capillary network, oxygen diffuses from the air across the wall of the alveolus and into the blood. That is why the distance is important.
Why are there large numbers of blood vessels around each alveolus?
because lots of oxygen needs to travel around
Oxygen diffuses into the capillaries of the lungs because there is?
It diffuses because the concentration of oxygen in the capillaries is lower than the concentration of oxygen in the air (law of diffusion).
Where does the air terminate in the respiratory system?
Probably in the tiny "balloons" called alveoli (singular, alveolus). Each has its walls filled with capillaries that bring in blood rich in carbon dioxide/low in oxygen. The carbon dioxide diffuses into the alveoli (then exhaled) while the oxygen just inhaled diffuses from each alveolus into the capillaries and is carried throughout the body. The heart pumps the blood constantly and permits this exchange in the lungs.
Why are there a large number of blood vessels around each alveolus?
because the oxygen needs to pass through alveoli and there is alot of cells around to be transported!!
What passes from the air inside the aveolus into the blood?
oxygen passes from the air to the blood, where it binds with haemoglobin to form oxyheamoglobin (how it is carried around the bloodstream) Carbon dioxide passes (diffuses) the other way ie. from blood to air inside alveolus, and from there exhaled.
How do the lungs interact with the circulatory system even though they are considered part of the respiratory system?
The purpose of the lungs is to get oxygen into the body and carbon dioxide out of it. It does this by having a generous supply of blood capillaries surrounding each alveolus. When fresh air is drawn into the alveolus oxygen diffuses through into the capillaries and carbon dioxide diffuses the other way. The capillaries are constantly supplied with de-oxygenated blood from the body and the oxygenated blood travels away to the heart and round the body.
Oxygen diffuses into the capillaries of the lungs because there is a?
greater concentration of oxygen in the air sacs of the lungs than in the capillaries.
How does ventilation help maintain a difference in oxygen concentration?
As it circulates, the oxygen diffuses into the blood via the alveolar wall, this then transfer the oxygen to the red blood cells, as diffusion occurs at this point, oxygen diffuses from a high concentration to a low concentration, so the oxygen diffuses into the blood whereas the CO2 diffuses into the alveoli and then out of the mouth when we expire.
Is oxygen more concentrated in the alveolus or capillary?
In the alveoli
