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Why are the walls of the ventricles more muscular than the walls of the atria?

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The ventricles require thicker muscle walls as it is assigned to deliver higher power in pumping the blood from the heart to all oarts of the body. The atium on the other hand is responsible for receiving blood only which requires not much muscles. 
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