Homework Help: mass and human body

Posted by David on Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 2:43pm.

By mass, most of human body is composed of what?

nitrogen

carbon

water

hydrogen

I think the answer is water. Am I correct?

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may2000/958588306.An.r.html

so am I correct in saying that it is water? I don't need percentages.

Well if it's over 50% that means it makes up the biggest part.

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