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Offline phmonkey

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need help doing stoich with hemoglobin!!
« on: March 31, 2008, 08:35:44 PM »
CO reacts with hemoglobins making blood unable to make O2. If you have 20% or more O2 bonded to CO, you would suffocate to death.
To find out wether someone would die you would use the formula:

Kc = [ (Hemoglobin CO) * (O2) ] / [ (Hemoglobin O2) * (CO) ] = 210 <-- consant

will you die from...

CO 8.4 * 10^-6 mol/L
O2 8.8 * 10^-3 mol/L

equation (hem CO/ hem O2) x 210 =

i did the research to get the first part.. i do not get how to do the chemistry part x.x
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Re: need help doing stoich with hemoglobem!!
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2008, 09:47:54 PM »
*Ignore me, I am impatient*

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Re: need help doing stoich with hemoglobin!!
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2008, 10:00:28 PM »
funny you should ask... i have the SAME question.

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Re: need help doing stoich with hemoglobin!!
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2008, 10:02:57 PM »
i think my question is wrong lol.. lemme verify...

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Re: need help doing stoich with hemoglobin!!
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2008, 10:03:51 PM »
really? causeit soudns right to me...

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Re: need help doing stoich with hemoglobin!!
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2008, 12:42:55 AM »
8.4 x 10^-6mol/L  x 210=   .20045454545= 20%, dead
8.8 x 10^-3 mol/L

can someone check this

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Re: need help doing stoich with hemoglobin!!
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2008, 05:16:16 AM »

Dear Phmonkey,   Dear James bond 3,

(Sorry!, ─   But at 4:05 PM, (4:05 AM my time) I was just arriving in bed.)

Re-arrange the Equation:  Kc =  cHCO:O2 / cHO2:CO  once for the:

-   first     Value for cHO2:CO  =     ??O??, and calculate its %age of the “whole”;

-   second Value for cHCO:O2  =     ??C??, and continue as above.

That should do it to make both of your “Adjudgements”!

Good Luck!
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