2007-03-13 18:36:49 · 3 answers · asked by alathief 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
As CO2? 2/3 of your body is water, and another 10% or so is bones, so the rest (vaguely 75% of your body) is organic matter. Although you have phosphates, sulfur-containing compounds that will becomes sulfates, etc., the (very) approximate composition of the rest of your body is CH2O. Of which, by weight, carbon is 12 / (12+2+16) = 12/30. Let's say you weigh 180 pounds (for a guy), 25% of that is approximately 45 pounds, of which 12/30, or 18 pounds is carbon. When cremated that much carbon will be released as CO2.
Of course if you're buried the same thing happens, it just takes the bacteria longer to eat you and breathe you out as CO2.
2007-03-13 18:48:17 · answer #1 · answered by Some Body 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well that depends on a number of factors....
The first one is now much does the person weight, a 100 Kg person is going to give out more Carbon than a 50 Kg person.
The next is how how fluid a person holds, they say a person is about 2/3 water. but the actual %% will be diffetent person to person.
Lastly how much muscule to fat ratio, muscule being protein and constisting of amino acids will have a higher Nitrogen content and a diffetent carbon content to fat that contains fatty acids, (long chains alkene carboxlic acids.
2007-03-14 03:11:20 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Hex Vision 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask Hitler. He kept detailed records.
2007-03-14 01:42:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋