If you humans were reduced to your constituent elements, would there be anything left beside chicken grease and corn oil?

Dr W2018-11-15T17:43:08Z

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don't forget the starch from french fries

Mike A2018-11-15T12:56:24Z

You start your question "If you humans were........." rather than "If we humans were....." How do you class yourself I wonder?

billrussell422018-11-15T12:01:53Z

those are not elements.

Constituent elements of the human body are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen mainly with some trace amounts of others.

wikipedia:
Almost 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. Only about 0.85% is composed of another five elements: potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium. All 11 are necessary for life. The remaining elements are trace elements, of which more than a dozen are thought on the basis of good evidence to be necessary for life. All of the mass of the trace elements put together (less than 10 grams for a human body) do not add up to the body mass of magnesium, the least common of the 11 non-trace elements.