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Out of curiosity, the exact elemental composition of a male human who was perfectly healthy with a mass of 90,000 grams would be what exacty? As well, what would the mass of the chemicals, and what chemicals, be for the chemical composition? This question also is asked for the material and tissue composition. 207.69.137.6 (talk) 23:10, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

You may get an answer to this question at the Reference desk. --Commander Keane (talk) 08:55, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

This article answers that exact question. I guess the only thing lacking is how to convert the percentages given into masses: If 65% of a 90,000 gram body is oxygen, then there is 0.65x90000=58500 grams of oxygen, the others are calculated the same way, just replace the 0.65 with the appropriate number. --Tango (talk) 22:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Sensible?

It is not very sensible to deconstruct the human body into its elements. If you sold all of those at the best market prices it would still be worth less than one kidney. Deconstructing into the various proteins and other molecules would be more interesting than knowing that there is enough iron to make one nail. SpinningSpark 11:20, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

People are often curious about the quantities of various elements in the human body. It is not necessarily related to monetary value. Dratman (talk) 21:26, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Merge proposal

It has been (anonymously) proposed to merge this with Chemical makeup of the human body. If anything, that one should be merged into this one, because this one is more general, in that it discusses the composition from other points of view besides chemical. Eric Kvaalen (talk) 18:32, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Merged. The table could be flagged somehow to indicate "elements essential to life", "elements not known to be biologically active" and "elements known to be only toxic". --Wtshymanski (talk) 16:40, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Fuzzy bars

I don't see the point of the bar charts. Oxygen dominates and the others are invisible anyway on a bar chart basis. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a pie chart showing fractions of the total graphically, instead of hard-to-compare unscaled bars? --Wtshymanski (talk) 00:47, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

First of all, what do you mean by “unscaled”? They are clearly to scale. — Secondly, why does it matter that some of the bars are invisible, since in the textual table there are no bars at all? Besides, they would certainly be just as invisible in a pie chart. — Thirdly, oxygen clearly doesn’t dominate in the second column, which the bars make clearly apparent but bare numbers do not. — Finally, the additional space used is a mere 40 pixels, and it is only in the horizontal where there is way enough space anyway. — Timwi (talk) 23:49, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

And more importantly, it would be nice if the two tables agreed, and if the useless counts of atoms were removed. --Wtshymanski (talk) 00:47, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

This is a separate point and may warrant a separate discussion. — Timwi (talk) 23:49, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Useful bits

Gosh that admin bit is handy. You can lock down any version you like as your preferred edition and never have to worry about anyone else changing it. --Wtshymanski (talk) 03:19, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Gosh that revert button is handy. You can keep reinstating the version you like and never have to actually discuss the matter with any real reasons or arguments. — Timwi (talk) 12:35, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

See above under "fuzzy bars". If we must have a graphic, it should be a pie chart - those bars are visually meaningless. --Wtshymanski (talk) 13:01, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Surely a pie chart would be less readable. The human eye is not good at judging angles; the bar chart is much clearer. Also, I thought you were worried about space? A pie chart would be a lot bigger. — Timwi (talk) 22:00, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Is this protection really necessary? Evercat (talk) 19:15, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

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