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What will happen when we replace oxygen with nitrogen in our life while breathing and what will happen if it was in our cells? (Theory no one has ever thought)

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The short answer is that you inhale oxygen because you need oxygen for some biological processes. A fairly important one is the production of ATP, the energy all of our cells use. In the process, electrons are used and oxygen has a high affinity for electrons.
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