types of sugar are made from carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. how can sugar and even salt(NaCl) form from elements so that they can be consumed? can someone really eat carbon and oxygen?
2007-09-20 05:31:20 · 6 answers · asked by jj 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Sure, oxygen when you breathe, carbon in the form of charcoal (might not taste too good but it wouldn't kill you).
2007-09-20 05:40:11 · answer #1 · answered by monsewer icks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They can't eat carbon and oxygen but the chemical compounds of carbon and oxygen such as sugars, yes. After all, we also are made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and a few more elements.
Chemical compounds formed from elements need not have the properties of the elements. The electronic structure largely determines the chemical nature and that is drastically changed by chemical compounds.
2007-09-20 05:39:47 · answer #2 · answered by Swamy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can consume carbon and oxygen. NaCI is a compound made from two elements. Oxygen is consumed when inhaling and carbon is consumed maybe from meat?
2007-09-20 05:35:29 · answer #3 · answered by Darkskinnyboy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you follow the news, you'll remember a story of 2 chinese coal miners that dug themselves out of a collapsed mine, and ate charcoal for food and drank, well you know what, for hydration. They made it out after 7 days, so I guess you can eat carbon
2007-09-20 06:46:28 · answer #4 · answered by vasilios s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sugar is a carbohydrate. So it is made with C,H,O. We don't eat carbon and oxygen.But we eat the compound made by them.
2007-09-20 05:40:58 · answer #5 · answered by Jewl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well yeah there's carbon in carbo-hydrates.
2007-09-20 05:35:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋