Consider Henry’s law. If a patient is given air with 30 % oxygen to breathe (that is, at one and a half times normal oxygen partial pressure), by how much would the amount of dissolved oxygen in the blood change?
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B: Henry’s law states that the amount of gas that will dissolve in water is proportional to its partial pressure. If its pp increases by 50 % (i.e. by 1.5 times), then 50 % more gas will dissolve.
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