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A) Gases are lipid soluble.
B) There are areas where the basement membrane of the alveolar epithelium and adjacent capillaries have fused.
C) There is a distance separating the respiratory and circulatory systems of as little as 0.1!m.
D) diffusion
E) All of the answers are correct.


E) All of the answers are correct.

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