How pulmonary ventilation influence the carbon-dioxide

How does pulmonary ventilation influence the carbon-dioxide concentration in the blood? What occurs to the carbon-dioxide concentration and to the blood pH whenever the respiratory frequency is either increased or decreased?

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The pulmonary ventilation frequency (that is, number of inhalations per time unit) increases or decreases the carbon-dioxide concentration in blood. When it is intense, then the gas is more removed to the exterior and when it is decreased the gas is retained within the organism.

By applying the principles of chemical equilibriums to the making of bicarbonate from carbon-dioxide and water one gets the shown: when the carbon-dioxide concentration is raised, the equilibrium shifts towards the making of bicarbonate and release of hydrogen ions and the pH of the solution is decreased; when the carbon-dioxide concentration is decreased the equilibrium shifts reversely in the direction of formation of water and carbon-dioxide and as well of more hydrogen ions spending and the pH of the solution is increased.

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