1. Assuming you have just reached a mountaintop and decided to eat a hardboiled egg. Surprisingly, during the preparation, the water seems to boil more quickly than usual. However, the egg is still not completely cooked even after being placed in the boiling water for 10 minutes. By using your knowledge of chemistry, explain the occurrence by considering the phase diagram viewpoint. 2. In the human body, various chemical equilibria must be maintained to ensure the physiological well-being. If the surroundings change, the body must adapt in order to keep functioning. A mountaineer may need weeks or even months to acclimatize hypoxia, a deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching body tissues that causes headache, nausea, extremely fatigue and other discomforts, while climbing the Mount Everest. In serious cases, the victim may slip into a coma and die if not treated quickly. Assuming the combination of oxygen and haemoglobin (Hb) molecules in the human body is represented as follows: Hb (aq) + O2 (aq) ⇌ HBO2 (aq) Explain how the mountaineers can survive at high altitude areas by using this chemical equilibrium equation.
1. Assuming you have just reached a mountaintop and decided to eat a hardboiled egg. Surprisingly, during the preparation, the water seems to boil more quickly than usual. However, the egg is still not completely cooked even after being placed in the boiling water for 10 minutes. By using your knowledge of chemistry, explain the occurrence by considering the phase diagram viewpoint.
2. In the human body, various chemical equilibria must be maintained to ensure the physiological well-being. If the surroundings change, the body must adapt in order to keep functioning. A mountaineer may need weeks or even months to acclimatize hypoxia, a deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching body tissues that causes headache, nausea, extremely fatigue and other discomforts, while climbing the Mount Everest. In serious cases, the victim may slip into a coma and die if not treated quickly. Assuming the combination of oxygen and haemoglobin (Hb) molecules in the human body is represented as follows:
Hb (aq) + O2 (aq) ⇌ HBO2 (aq)
Explain how the mountaineers can survive at high altitude areas by using this
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