HBS204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Venous Blood, Partial Pressure, Restrictive Lung Disease

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Hbs204 week 2 the respiratory system 2. Each individual gas in a mixture exerts its own pressure called partial pressure (pgas) Dalton"s law states that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is the sum of the partial pressures of each of the individual gases that the mixture contains. Air is a mixture of gases 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon and very small amounts of other gases like carbon dioxide. Atmospheric pressure is the sum of the partial pressures of each of these gases, total atmospheric pressure at sea level - 760 mm of mercury is the sum of the partial pressure of nitrogen, oxygen, argon and other gases including carbon dioxide: we need to work out the partial pressures of each of the gases at different atmospheric pressures. At atmospheric pressure of 760 mm of mercury the partial pressure of oxygen in that mix equates to 160 mm of mercury.

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