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- From: sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Electrons in the body
- Date: 26 Aug 92 19:44:35 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- References: <1992Aug26.122949.10900@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
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- In article <1992Aug26.122949.10900@relay.nswc.navy.mil>, bwallet@apssgi.nswc.navy.mil (Brad Wallet) writes...
- >Could anyone give me a rough estimate of the percent of mass of a human
- >body which is made of electrons? Not important, just curious.
- >
- >Brad
- >No ideas, no thoughts, no observations, no disclaimer
-
- 1/4000, more or less. This is because an electron weighs 1/1836 of a proton
- mass. There is roughly one neutron for every proton in the body (very few
- heavy elements with higher neutron/proton ratio are in any abundance in the
- body.) So there is one electron for every two nucleons.
-
- -Scott
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- Scott I. Chase "The question seems to be of such a character
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV that if I should come to life after my death
- and some mathematician were to tell me that it
- had been definitely settled, I think I would
- immediately drop dead again." - Vandiver
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