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Biology question …?
The surface area of a typical human is 1.8 m square. If shed and replace the outer skin cells every 30 days, the estimate of how many cans of soda are represented by the carbon content of the lost skin cells. Assuming that the size typical of a skin cell is 50 microns (1 x 10 ^ -6 m), the density of a hydrated cell is 1 g / cm cubed, and a can of soda contains 36 grams of sugar as glucose. Please please help! Thank you sooo much!
That is a pain of a question. I usually do not answer questions clearly the work but this seems a little interesting, and I'm bored. 1 can of soft drink = 36g of glucose. The molecular weight of glucose is 180.16g/mol and the formula is C6H12O6, so that 6 atoms 72g/mol carbon given to each molecule, or 40%. So 36g of glucose = 14.4g of pure carbon per can. Now for the skin, rather difficult. This bit requires a bit of interpretation of the question, when the teacher said "replace the outer skin cells every 30 days" we assume he was referring only to the layer of dead skin, or stratum corneum, and unless otherwise have said in class, I am assuming its 30 cells of depth that is equal to 1500μm deep (30 * 50 ¼) = 0.0015m 1500μm deep. Given that you have a skin area of 1.8m2, which gives a volume of 0.0027m3 which is also equal to 2700cm3 of dead skin cells dry. You has been cited in the density of skin cells hydrated 1g/cm, since a cell is about 60% water, the dry density of a cell would be 40% that (0.4g/cm3), however, since water loss would lose cell volume too, presumably 60% loss, so it would 0.4g/0.4cm3, 1g/cm3 or original. So we 2700cm3 of dead skin to 1g/cm3, so 2700G (2.7 kg, does not sound completely unreasonable, perhaps twice what would have guessed). By Finally, what percentage of carbon that we are? I think that 39% (but if you were told something else, use that value). 2700G * 39% = 1053g of pure carbon in all the skin. 1053g skin carbon / carbon 14.4g = 73.125 pure tin cans of soda.
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