Can We Collide CO²and O²?
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We all know that the air we breathe is made up of 20% oxygen. The concentration of carbon dioxide has recently surpassed levels of 400 parts per million, the highest in millions of years, pumped up by human activities. These atmospheric gases are critical to the life styles of plants and animals alike. However, biological reactions take place in liquid media and thus should depend upon the solubility of these key inorganic constituents. What concentrations of oxygen and carbon dioxide do cells see in their everyday lives in the watery media within which they live?
Living organisms are built out of four main types of atoms: carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. In the human body, together they amount to ≈96% of the wet weight and ≈87% of the dry weight as shown in the vignette “What is the elemental composition of a cell?”. However, the pool of these constituents in the cellular milieu is often in limited supply. For example, as we will discuss below oxygen is soluble in water to only about 10 parts per million. In the case of carbon and nitrogen, these atoms are tied up in a relatively inert inorganic form sequestered in CO2 and N2, respectively. As a result, cells must find ways to draw these molecules out of these otherwise inaccessible reservoirs and convert them into some usable form. Though “water” and “air” are known to all in the same way that anyone that lives in northern climes has a visceral response to the word “snow”, it is often forgotten that these words from the common vernacular mask a rich molecular reality.
No we can't collide Co^2 and O^2 because if we want to collide we need C particles so that it become 2CO^2
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