Carbon dioxide has a relatively high solubility in blood plasma, although it has a very low partial pressure. What law describes this phenomenon

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The bulk of carbon dioxide is carried chemically combined with the amino acids of hemoglobin as carbaminohemoglobin in the RBCs.

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