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Topic: Chemical Composition of the human body. Don't know if this was done before.  (Read 4075 times)

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Offline Micalasshole

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I'm trying to figure out the chemical composition of a 250lb body and need some help
badly so please help?

Offline Honclbrif

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Have you tried searching Google for "elemental abundance in human body"
Individual results may vary

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no i haven't thanks for telling me.

Offline Micalasshole

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Just looked up didn't give me any info that i didn't know. Is there a formula for it or something like that?

Offline Honclbrif

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What is it exactly that you need to know? "Chemical Composition of the human body" is pretty broad.
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Offline Jerry

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Just looked up didn't give me any info that i didn't know. Is there a formula for it or something like that?

A formula that is true for every bond involved with the human body...no.

If you are looking for the chemical composition written in a "chemical equation" format...look up the % composition by each atom... convert the body mass into easily usable units, then use the % by mass to figure in the total number of atoms involved... but you are going to be getting absurdly large values, and what point this question serves is unknown to me.

A little more specificity would go a long ways.

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Dude with the last comment, you got me confused. Being specific is't easy for me so i went with one that was easy for me to write down on here. Okay this is far harder then i thought it would be.

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Here you go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements#Human_body_elemental_abundance

Notice that the proportions are by mass and hydrogen is only 10% because of it, although there are a lot of hydrogen atoms in our body.

If you are looking for the various molecule names, then I have no idea. There are a lot of proteins, peptides, sugars, the stuff that make up cell walls, enzymes, hormones and of course, H2O and CO2, O2, N2, .

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