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Chapter Ten : Acid-Base Physiology

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The Bicarbonate Buffer System Is a Smart Biochemical Buffer

The bicarbonate buffer system is designed to absorb hydrogen ions in a way you couldn't do with a regular buffer system. By the way that equation looks like a very difficult algebra problem where you have 80 equals 800 times that that fraction 1.2 plus x divided by 24 minus x I looked at that and was like yeah it's not as awful as it looks but it's nice that it comes with a solution right in. It shows you that you can really because you can breathe the buffer becomes a smart system and it becomes 10 times more powerful which is a really cool takeaway here.

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