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by TacticalMalice 3424 days ago
> But CO hogs it all oxygen has no chance of affixing to hemoglobin since there is nowhere to stick.

CO's action is not purely competitive. Its binding at one binding site influences the three other sites to bind oxygen so strongly that oxygen won't dissociate from the complex where it is needed; In tissues, starving them of oxygen.