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Hw is carbon monoxide gas more absorant with our blood than oxygen?

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RBC’s have oxygen carrying pigment known as hemoglobin. Carbon monoxide have higher tendency to bind with hemoglobin than the oxygen that leads to the carbon monoxide poisoning.

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