• Question: how many particles do you have in your body

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      Asked by matthew to Alex, Anaïs, Peter, Sarwat, Shreesha on 11 Mar 2015.
      • Photo: Sarwat Iqbal

        Sarwat Iqbal answered on 11 Mar 2015:

        Not sure what do you want to know by ‘particles’? There are about ~50 – 73 000,000,000,000 cells in the human body. Plus you need to count number of bacteria in body, amount of hair, particles making up bones, loads and loads …

      • Photo: Peter Maskell

        Peter Maskell answered on 11 Mar 2015:

        atoms…more than I can count.

      • Photo: Anaïs Pujol

        Anaïs Pujol answered on 16 Mar 2015:

        a lots !!!

      • Photo: Shreesha Bhat

        Shreesha Bhat answered on 16 Mar 2015:

        countless!

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