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Standard XII
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Exchange of Gases
How do the lu...
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How do the lungs work?
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Oxygen from the air dissolves in the moist living of the alveoli--the 750 million tiny air sacs -- and pass into blood capillaries which surround them. At the same time carbon dioxide passes from the blood into the alveoli and is exhaled.
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