I thought it was Calcium, but when people don't have enough calcium, their bones just crumble, not rot.
2006-09-02 04:04:55 · 11 answers · asked by PeachyPies 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I know that the don't rot, I want to know WHY?
2006-09-02 04:10:46 · update #1
*that they*
2006-09-02 04:11:07 · update #2
For r_redfern - the reason we r not head to foot in bones is that bones are turned into sedementary rock over billions of years, all squashed together like a big sandwich.
Source MY marvelous brain.
2006-09-03 06:19:56 · update #3
When bones are buried in the earth, they do rot; but not in a way that we recognize as rotting. Other minerals take the place of the calcium, so that the fossil still has the shape of the original bone, but is made of different elements. If a bone's calcium was leeching out of it in the earth and it was not being replaced by other minerals, we could dig it up and it would be partially rotted away.
2006-09-02 04:23:47 · answer #1 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course bones do rot, eventually. Just think if the bones of every creature that ever lived still existed. We would be up to our ears in bones. You might be fooled because a tiny percent of bones become fossilized, but that only occurs under special conditions, and only a few bones are lucky enough to ever become fossils.
2006-09-02 21:05:15 · answer #2 · answered by r_redfern 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u r right, its calcium present in the bones that save it from rotting. the bones crumbling inside a living person due to lack of calcium depends upon the type of activity the person is persuing.
2006-09-02 04:29:13 · answer #3 · answered by ame_123in 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bones do rot, but 'cause they are really hard and stuff it takes longer than say skin. Bones crumble to dust eventually.
2006-09-02 04:08:06 · answer #4 · answered by Mountaineer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bones don't rot because there's nothing other than the bone marrow, which is inside the bone, that the decomposers can use as food.
2006-09-02 06:50:15 · answer #5 · answered by asmodexx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bones do crumble or deteriorate due to lack of calcium (or lack of blood flow, which also deprives the bones of calcium).
rotting is defined as deterioration of matter that has a pungent (bad) smell.
bones do not rot b/c bones are not composed of the molecular benzene rings that flesh is composed of. that's why deteriorating bones do not produce a pungent odor like deteriorating flesh- so therefore, bones do not rot like flesh does.
2006-09-02 04:11:57 · answer #6 · answered by miss advice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bones do rot they just take longer to decay...
2006-09-02 04:08:18 · answer #7 · answered by Jay G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they do rot,it just takes a very long time.
2006-09-02 04:09:24 · answer #8 · answered by That one guy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are filled with delicious peach filling
2006-09-02 04:14:16 · answer #9 · answered by dale 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where if the doctor when you need him
2006-09-02 04:11:21 · answer #10 · answered by Peakey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋