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  2. Inhalation - Wikipedia

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    Inhalation of air, as part of the cycle of breathing, is a vital process for all human life.The process is autonomic (though there are exceptions in some disease states) and does not need conscious control or effort.

  3. Reaction mechanism - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, a reaction mechanism is the step by step sequence of elementary reactions by which overall chemical reaction occurs. [ 1 ] A chemical mechanism is a theoretical conjecture that tries to describe in detail what takes place at each stage of an overall chemical reaction.

  4. Control of ventilation - Wikipedia

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    Ventilation is normally unconscious and automatic, but can be overridden by conscious alternative patterns. [3] Thus the emotions can cause yawning, laughing, sighing (etc.), social communication causes speech, song and whistling, while entirely voluntary overrides are used to blow out candles, and breath holding (for instance, to swim underwater).

  5. Respiration (physiology) - Wikipedia

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    In physiology, respiration is the transport of oxygen from the outside environment to the cells within tissues, and the removal of carbon dioxide in the opposite direction to the environment by a respiratory system.

  6. Breathing - Wikipedia

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    Real-time magnetic resonance imaging of the human thorax during breathing X-ray video of a female American alligator while breathing. Breathing (spiration [1] or ventilation) is the rhythmical process of moving air into and out of the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the internal environment, mostly to flush out carbon dioxide and bring in oxygen.

  7. Taft equation - Wikipedia

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    The Taft equation is a linear free energy relationship (LFER) used in physical organic chemistry in the study of reaction mechanisms and in the development of quantitative structure–activity relationships for organic compounds. It was developed by Robert W. Taft in 1952 [2] [3] [4] as a modification to the Hammett equation. [5]

  8. Insertion reaction - Wikipedia

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    The term only refers to the result of the reaction and does not suggest a mechanism. Insertion reactions are observed in organic , inorganic , and organometallic chemistry. In cases where a metal- ligand bond in a coordination complex is involved, these reactions are typically organometallic in nature and involve a bond between a transition ...

  9. Concerted reaction - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, a concerted reaction is a chemical reaction in which all bond breaking and bond making occurs in a single step. Reactive intermediates or other unstable high energy intermediates are not involved. [1] [2] Concerted reaction rates tend not to depend on solvent polarity ruling out large buildup of charge in the transition state.