how many atoms in your body

Question: how many atoms in your body

Asked by joel to Betul, Bridget, Ceri-Wyn, Laurel, Maria on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: General.
- Betul Arslan answered on 17 Jun 2010:
  
  Genius way to ask a woman’s weight but you are not going to get it! I consume hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen (in a regular way), so, if you add up protons. neutrons and electrons of each element times the body weight you’are going to get it. I liked this question 🙂
- Ceri-Wyn Thomas answered on 17 Jun 2010:
  
  Hmmmm, well I weigh about 50kg so I estimate there are about
  5 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in my body.
- Laurel Fogarty answered on 17 Jun 2010:
  
  I’m afraid I had to google this (I know its cheating but they just don’t teach us that kind of thing in uni!) and the internet, that most trustworthy of information sources, thinks the number of atoms in the average human body is 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Thats lots.
- Bridget Waller answered on 18 Jun 2010:
  
  no idea! Another one for google?

Question: how many atoms in your body