PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 



TABLE FOR CALCULATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE COMBINING POWER 



OF PLASM A * 



j C.c. of CO 2 reduced to o 

 Observed 760 mm. bound as bicar- 



Observed 



C.c. of CO 2 reduced to o 

 760 mm. bound as blear- 



1 The temperature figures at the heads of columns represent the room temperature 

 at which the samples of plasma are saturated with alveolar carbon dioxide and analyzed. 

 It is assumed that both operations are performed at the same temperature. The^ figures 

 have been so calculated that, regardless of the room temperature at which saturation and 

 analysis are performed, the table gives the volume (reduced to o, 760 mm.) ^of carbon 

 dioxide that 100 c.c. of plasma are capable of binding when saturated at 20 with carbon 

 dioxide at approximately 41 mm. tension. If the figures in the table are multiplied by 

 0.94 they give, within i or 2 per cent of the carbon dioxide bound at 37. 



