Friday, February 11, 2011

Water + Diamonds = the human body

According to common science, the mass of the human body is comprised of the following core elements:

1. Oxygen 65%
2. Carbon 18%
3. Hydrogen 10%

Water, or hydrogen dioxide (H2O), makes up 65%-90% of the human body's cells by weight. We are mostly made of water and oxygen, in both liquid and gas states. Both are necessary to keep the human body alive.














We are also made of carbon, which forms raw graphite, charcoal, and diamond, all of which are allotropes of carbon. Generally speaking, the purer the carbon the higher the value of the mineral in question, particularly when it comes to diamonds.






"Diamond" means "unbreakable" in Greek, named as such because diamonds are one of the hardest minerals on the planet. They are used in industrial processes, as drill bits or laser drill bits, polishing and cutting other minerals that are too hard for regular metal bits.






The human body also contains some other basic elements: nitrogen (3%), calcium (1.5%), phosphorus (1.0%), potassium (0.35%), sulfur (0.25%), sodium (0.15%), and magnesium (0.05%). The remaining 0.70% is comprised of copper, zinc, selenium, molybdenum, fluorine, chlorine, iodine, manganese, cobalt, and iron, with trace amounts of lithium, strontium, silicon, lead, vanadium, arsenic, and bromine, among many other elements depending on the environment or experiences the human body is exposed to.

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