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When you breath in oxygen, that oxygen undergoes a process called cellular respiration in order to provide energy for your cells. I won't go into detail with the entire process, but basically a sugar (C6H12O6) combined with oxygen (6O2) to create carbon dioxide (6CO2) and water (6H2O). Since the carbon dioxide is a waste product, we release it when we exhale. If you're wondering what happens to it, plants use it to undergo a process called photosynthesis, which is basically the oppisite of cellular respiration; needing carbon dioxide and water while producing a sugar and oxygen, and they then give the oxygen off as a wast product. That's all hope this helped!

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