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carbon dioxide A colorless and odorless gas formed in the tissues during metabolism and carried in the blood to the lungs, where it is exhaled (an increase in the concentration of this gas in the blood stimulates respiration). carbon dioxide occurs in small amounts in the atmosphere (0.04% volume); it is used by plants in the process of photosynthesis. Its chemical symbol is CO2.

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