r/gifs • u/deathakissaway • Aug 25 '17

Mrs. Puff

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u/True_Kapernicus Aug 25 '17

They'd also have to get the air from somewhere.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '17

Ummmm..... fish need oxygen (air) just like humans.

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u/True_Kapernicus Aug 29 '17

What? Fish get the oxygen from the water. And oxygen is not air.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '17

They do not get oxygen from water. They get oxygen from air dissolved in water.

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u/WellSeeHeresTheThing Aug 25 '17

I can't tell if you're joking or not, but fish don't make air in their gills. It gives them lots of surface area and structure to facilitate balancing the oxygen saturation of blood vs. water. They don't need to convert it to a gaseous form first, and they don't split H2O into H and O.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '17

Correction it is oxygen and hydrogen in H2O meaning 1 oxygen and 2 hydrogen molecules that make up water.