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प्रश्न
Explain how oxygen deficiency is caused by carbon monoxide in our blood? Give its effect.
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उत्तर
- Carbon monoxide binds with haemoglobin and form carboxyhemoglobin which impairs normal oxygen transport by blood and hence the oxygen-carrying capacity of blood is reduced.
- This oxygen deficiency results in headache, dizziness, tension, loss of consciousness, blurring of eyesight and cardiac arrest.
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| List I | List II | ||
| A | Depletion of ozone layer |
1 | CO2 |
| B | Acid rain | 2 | NO |
| C | Photochemical smog | 3 | SO2 |
| D | Green house effect | 4 | CFC |
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