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Yeah, how can the body tell which noble gas it's breathing? As the article mentions, the xenon is exhaled in its original form without having been metabolized o
by schoen 2y ago
Yeah, how can the body tell which noble gas it's breathing? As the article mentions, the xenon is exhaled in its original form without having been metabolized or having caused any chemical changes in the body!
- alan-hn 2y agoDifferent atoms have different sizes and if you look into how ion channels work you can see that there are many processes in biochemistry that are incredibly specific to size and charge
- idiotsecant 2y agoChemistry is a subset of physics, not the other way around. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10218445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10218445/
- lpribis 2y ago> having caused any chemical changes in the body But it does cause chemical chsnges. Noble gasses can weakly interact. It does not need to form bonds to influence potential gradients, protein shapes, or other reactions.