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  2. Composition of the human body - Wikipedia

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    Body composition may be analyzed in various ways. This can be done in terms of the chemical elements present, or by molecular structure e.g., water, protein, fats (or lipids), hydroxyapatite (in bones), carbohydrates (such as glycogen and glucose) and DNA. In terms of tissue type, the body may be analyzed into water, fat, connective tissue ...

  3. Buckypaper - Wikipedia

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    Buckypaper can be used to grow biological tissue, such as nerve cells. Buckypaper can be electrified or functionalized to encourage growth of specific types of cells. The Poisson's ratio for carbon nanotube buckypaper can be controlled and has exhibited auxetic behavior, capable of use as artificial muscles.

  4. Buckminsterfullerene - Wikipedia

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    Buckminsterfullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula C 60. It has a cage-like fused-ring structure (truncated icosahedron) made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons, and resembles a soccer ball. Each of its 60 carbon atoms is bonded to its three neighbors.

  5. Fullerene - Wikipedia

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    60 and calculated its electronic structure. The paper was published in 1973, [14] but the scientific community did not give much importance to this theoretical prediction. Around 1980, Sumio Iijima identified the molecule of C 60 from an electron microscope image of carbon black, where it formed the core of a particle with the structure of a ...

  6. Muscular system - Wikipedia

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    Muscles provide strength, balance, posture, movement, and heat for the body to keep warm. [3] There are more than 600 muscles in an adult male human body. [4] A kind of elastic tissue makes up each muscle, which consists of thousands, or tens of thousands, of small muscle fibers.

  7. Skeletal muscle - Wikipedia

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    This increases the ability to remove waste products, like lactic acid, out of the muscles in order to not impair muscle function. Once moved out of muscles, lactic acid can be used by other muscles or body tissues as a source of energy, or transported to the liver where it is converted back to pyruvate. In addition to increasing the level of ...

  8. Muscle - Wikipedia

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    Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue.Muscle tissue gives skeletal muscles the ability to contract.Muscle is formed during embryonic development, in a process known as myogenesis.

  9. Body composition - Wikipedia

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    A wide variety of body composition measurement methods exist. The gold standard measurement technique for the 4-compartment model consists of a weight measurement, body density measurement using hydrostatic weighing or air displacement plethysmography, total body water calculation using isotope dilution analysis, and mineral content measurement by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). [1]