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FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

The joke plays on the fact that hemoglobin has a much higher affinity for carbon monoxide than for oxygen - about 200-250 times higher. So when carbon monoxide is present, hemoglobin will preferentially bind to it instead of oxygen, which is why carbon monoxide poisoning is so dangerous.

(from an LLM)
for those like me who didn’t get it

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