When we breathe in air, nitrogen also goes inside along with oxygen. What is the fate of this nitrogen?

When we breathe, nitrogen do enters our body along with oxygen and carbon-di-oxide but is not exchanged at the alveolar level. This is because our body cannot utilize the free nitrogen present in the air. We full fill our nitrogen requirements via. Food we consume since they have nucleic acids and proteins which provide us the required nitrogen. Also blood don’t have any mechanism of carrying free nitrogen.


So the nitrogen inhaled is exhaled out as it is.

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