2007-04-24 08:28:03 · 9 answers · asked by kezzygray 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
An excellent question! I can't say for sure, but here's what I think. The lungs would do just fine at removing carbon dioxide from the blood, as long as the water wasn't already saturated with CO2. Tle alveolar-capillary membrane allows the passage of the O2 oxygen molecule into the blood. Given your requirement that it can withstand the cold, it shouldn't care whether the O2 was in the gas or liquid state.
Drowning occurs because the lungs are incapable of extracing enough oxygen from the water to sustain life. Gills have a different membrane and also process large quantities of water. But liquid oxygen isn't short of oxygen. Though lungs are less efficient than gills at extracting oxygen from water, they don't need to. There's plenty there.
2007-04-24 10:53:58 · answer #1 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Erm properly if your epidermis replaced into lined enormously plenty then you certainly in all possibility would not die. You lips and throat would take a terrible chilly burn nevertheless, so a procedures as drowning is going any liquid oxygen you inhale will imediately be warmed up filling your lungs with gaseous oxygen, (it would be very chilly for a at a similar time as yet oxygen non the fewer). do not think of it would be a delightful journey besides it would be unbearably painful. no one is going to volunteer shall we positioned it that way.
2016-11-27 01:45:53 · answer #2 · answered by crupi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There is nothing wrong with the properties of oxygen aside from the cold, but your lungs are not built to handle liquids. You would essentially drown in air. Additionally, blood cells are designed to pick up gas. Even if your lungs were strengthened, you would probably not survive.
2007-04-24 10:33:04 · answer #3 · answered by Superconductive Magnet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't drown in the sense of drowning in water, since as one of the answers put it, the first contact with our warm body will make a little liquid oxygen vaporise and we can last a few minutes with that vapor. But later?
2007-04-24 10:28:21 · answer #4 · answered by Swamy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your body temperature remains at about 98.6 degrees Farenheit, no, because your body heat will evaporate the liquid oxygen that's close to your body, including near your nostrils, so you will get a lungful of freezing oxygen gas.
2007-04-24 08:33:25 · answer #5 · answered by Liquid Astatine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i cant see the problem in it being a liquid form. from what i understand of the oxygen attaches to the haemoglobin is not in a gaseous state in the blood. so i guess the problem is would the haemoglobin pick up the oxygen the same? and i cant see why not...but they are bigger and smarter people out there..
2007-04-24 10:30:45 · answer #6 · answered by Blondie the second 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the viscosity of a liquid is different than the viscosity of a gas.
Your lungs would not pass the liquid O2 as it is not presented as separated molecules.
Couldn't pass them in molecule by molecule as it does do with the gas.
2007-04-25 09:58:37 · answer #7 · answered by occluderx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because our body's are used to breathing in air which is 70% nitrogen and something like 28% oxygen so we would not last long.
2007-04-24 08:48:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For such a hypothetical question the non-hypothetical answer is ...Yes!
2007-04-24 11:19:30 · answer #9 · answered by Norrie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋