What does the human body do with the hydrogen in H 2 O ?

Answer 1

to make a long story short...for every hydrogen molecule you consume, a cell in your body produces one molecule of ATP, or the body's universal source of energy

Answer 2

Creatures that live in water like fish, get their oxygen from water passing over their gills. This is oxygen which is suspended in the water, not the separation of hydrogen and oxygen.
Humans drink water and it pretty much stays as water or a solution of substances in water. Think about how water enters the body and how it leaves.

Answer 3

The human body is a great chemistry set. Stomach acid includes hydrochloric acid (HCl) even though we don't drink the acid. Perhaps the H comes from water and the Cl comes from salt (NaCl). We eat food containing complex hydro-carbon chain molecules and when we burn them using oxygen we breath in we produce carbon dioxide and (meatabolic) water that we never drank. Whales never drink sea water! In fact when a car burns a gallon of gas it produces about a gallon of water in the form of vapor (visible on a frigid day). Much of the water we drink passes through and is eliminated as sweat of urine which helps dilute and remove waste products from the blood. Hope that helps a little.

Answer 4

i'm not a biologist, so this may be wrong, but i don't think the body actually splits up the water molecule into oxygen and hydrogen.

Answer 5

we don't break water in H and O. The oxygen we need is obtained from the air. It takes a lot of energy to separate water into H and O and we don't need H for anything, so why do it?

Answer 6

The body doesn't split up H2O. It merely uses it for various things and keeps it as H2O