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Posted by JLW on September 01, 2004 at 17:32:23 from (64.209.38.120):
In Reply to: Carbon Monoxide posted by Mattlt on September 01, 2004 at 08:02:15:
The brain has several safety systems that protects it. When the oxygen amount needed to maintain responsiveness is reached, the brain shuts down to protect itself. If the shut down is long enough the brain begins to die due to oxygen starvation. Carbon Monoxide bonds to the redblood cells and prohibits those cells from obtaining oxygen and that is the cause of oxygen deprivation. There is still enough oxygen in the air to allow ignition inside an engine, but that oxygen is not allowed to get to the brain because the CO bonding to the redblood cells.
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