Every time you breathe in, oxygen from the air you inhale passes through the thin walls of the alveoli into the surrounding capillaries, where red blood cells pick it up using a protein called hemoglobin .At the same time, carbon dioxide, the waste gas carried back to the lungs from the cells of the body, trades places with the oxygen, moving from the blood in the capillaries back into the ... More @Wikipedia
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