• Question: why is toxic fumes bad for us

    Asked by pricee to Michael, Panos on 25 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Panos Soultanas answered on 25 Jun 2010:

      Hi pricee,

      It depends on what kind of toxic fumes you are talking about. Toxic fumes contain a lot of poisenous compounds that once in your body can interefere with metabolic processes like oxidative phosphorylation, DNA synthesis, RNA synthesis, transport of blood by the red blood cells and many others. It depends on the actual poison that is in the toxic fumes.

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      Michael Loughlin answered on 25 Jun 2010:

      right well toxic means doing harm to life so fumes that are toxic are gases that will damage us.

      Why…? well there could be a number of reassons
      Some fumes contain no oxygen so we will suffocate if we breathe too much of that
      Some fumes could contain corrozive chemicals like if concentrated acid. They rip fats from you and remove water which leads to destroying and eating away of tissues ( corrosive comes from a word meaning to Gnaw)
      Some fumes like mustard gas from WW1 strip the linings of your lungs and blister your skin…all of which by attacking the DNA in your cells

      so lts of different methods of killing our cells

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