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    This document discusses the chemical composition of cells. It states that living organisms are composed of about 25 essential elements including carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, sodium, potassium, sulfur, chlorine, phosphorus, magnesium, and iron. It also notes that trace elements like zinc, fluorine, manganese, selenium, cobalt, molybdenum, copper, chromium, and iodine make up less than 0.01% of the human mass. The main elements in the human body are oxygen at 64%, carbon at 19%, hydrogen at 10%, nitrogen at 3%, and other elements at 4%.

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    This document discusses the chemical composition of cells. It states that living organisms are composed of about 25 essential elements including carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, sodium, potassium, sulfur, chlorine, phosphorus, magnesium, and iron. It also notes that trace elements like zinc, fluorine, manganese, selenium, cobalt, molybdenum, copper, chromium, and iodine make up less than 0.01% of the human mass. The main elements in the human body are oxygen at 64%, carbon at 19%, hydrogen at 10%, nitrogen at 3%, and other elements at 4%.

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    Biology Form 4: Chemical Composition of The Cell

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    This document discusses the chemical composition of cells. It states that living organisms are composed of about 25 essential elements including carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, sodium, potassium, sulfur, chlorine, phosphorus, magnesium, and iron. It also notes that trace elements like zinc, fluorine, manganese, selenium, cobalt, molybdenum, copper, chromium, and iodine make up less than 0.01% of the human mass. The main elements in the human body are oxygen at 64%, carbon at 19%, hydrogen at 10%, nitrogen at 3%, and other elements at 4%.

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    Biology Form 4

    Chapter 4.1
    Chemical Composition of the Cell
    Living
    &
    Non-living

    Elements
    Substance that cannot be broken down
    into simpler substances through chemical
    reaction
    -There are about 25 essential elements needed by
    living organisms
    Amongst the common elements are:

    Carbon [C]
    Oxygen [O] 96% of the mass
    Hydrogen [H] of the
    Nitrogen [N] human body
    Calcium
    [C]

    Sodium Potassium
    [Na] [K]

    Sulphur
    [S] 4% Chlorine
    [Cl]

    Phosphorus Magnesium
    [P] [Mg]

    Ferum (Iron)
    [Fe]
    Calcium
    [C]

    Sodium Potassium
    [Na] [K]

    Occur in living
    Sulphur
    [S] 4%
    organisms
    through
    small quantities
    Chlorine
    [Cl]

    Phosphorus Magnesium
    [P] [Mg]

    Ferum (Iron)
    [Fe]
    Zinc

    Fluorine Manganese

    Selenium Cobalt
    Trace
    Elements
    > less than
    0.01 of
    human mass
    <
    Molybdenum Copper

    Chronium Iodine

    Boron
    Trace Elements
    Nitrogen 0.01%
    3%
    Hydrogen Other Elements
    10% 4%

    Carbon
    19%

    Oxygen
    64%

    Percentages of various elements


    in the human body

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