Why We Breathe Oxygen?

OokamiOkuri

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Rust is caused by oxygen. You breathe oxygen every day. If this dangerous chemical can rust a pipe imagine what it's doing to your lungs!
 

DarkeReises

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Idk man, it's a pretty toxic substance. Too little and we suffocate, too much we get poisoned. whytho
 

SternenklarenRitter

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Not all organisms breath oxygen though (although aquatic animals actually do breath the oxygen in water and not water itself). Plants breath sunlight (and eat carbon dioxide), while a variety of bacteria breath exotic substances like sulphate (SO4--), hexvalent uranium (UO2++), ferric iron (Fe+++, aka rust), or arsenate (AsO4---). Dioxygen is used by the majority of atmospheric organisms (exist in air) because it is high energy (reactive) and has an energy barrier (like pushing a rock up a small hill to knock it down a cliff) preventing it from reacting immediately and explosively (like dichlorine does).
 

Nylyx

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You need Oxygen to burn shit. You need to burn calories to stay alive. Seeing the link yet? Besides, while oxygen is actually quite dangerous to the body if not handled properly, that’s why you eat vitamins (or antiOXIDANTS wink wink). Tbh it’s funny af when someone‘s cho
 

Nylyx

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We breath air not oxygen. Oxygen isn’t even a majority of what’s in the air we breath.
Oxygen has the largest share if the air, after Nitrogen. And we don’t even do anything with nitrogen. I’m pretty sure he meant that. Though I could be wrong
 
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