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Would you settle for a whole bunch? I didn't think so.

The number of atoms in one


person is almost too big to write out. But fortunately there's a shorthand system, called
scientific notation, that we use instead for writing really BIG or really SMALL numbers.
Since huge numbers are generally just estimates anyway, we just use the first few
numbers, followed by a code that tells you how many zeros would follow if you wrote it
all out. Ok, here it goes. Hydrogen, oxygen and carbon make up about 99% of the
average human. I'm going to cheat a little and leave out the other 1%, which is made up
of trace elements (that is, stuff there's only a trace of in the body). Then, let's assume an
average adult weighs 70 kilograms. Be sure to keep in mind that the following numbers
are based on the number of atoms, not percent of body weight (by weight we are mostly
oxygen). A 70 kg body would have approximately 7*1027 atoms. That is, 7 followed by
27 zeros:
7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Of that, 4.7*1027 would be hydrogen atoms, which have one proton and one electron
each. Another 1.8*1027 would be oxygen, which has 8 protons, 8 neutrons and 8
electrons. There are 7.0*1026 carbon atoms, which have 6 protons, 6 neutrons and 6
electrons. Now, let's add that all up:

Protons Neutrons Electrons

Hydrogen 4.7*1027 0 4.7*1027

Oxygen 1.4*1028 1.4*1028 1.4*1028

Carbon 4.2*1027 4.2*1027 4.2*1027

Total 2.3*1028 1.8*1028 2.3*1028

It depends on the size of the star. Take the sun, which is considered a medium-sized star.

It weighs 1.98892 × 10^33 grams. The sun is about 74.9% hydrogen and 23.8% helium.
So it will be about 1.49 x 10^33 grams hydrogen and 4.73 x 10^32 grams helium.

Using stoichiometry, convert grams to atoms of each element and add them together.
(1.49 x 10^33 grams H) * (1 mol H / 1.008 g H) * (6.022 x 10^23 H atoms/ 1 mol H) =
8.90 x 10^56 hydrogen atoms

( 4.73 x 10^32 grams He) * (1 mol He / 4.003 g He) * (6.022 x 10^23 He atoms/ 1 mol
He) = 7.23 x 10^55 helium atoms

8.90 x 10^56 hydrogen atoms + 7.23 x 10^55 helium atoms = 9.61 x 10^56 atoms.

So there would be about 9.61 x 10^56 atoms in the Sun (a little bit over half a googol of
atoms). This is a conservative estimate, as there is still 1.3% of the Sun's mass left
unaccounted for. Still, you can use this as a basis for rough comparisons with other stars,
which may be smaller or thousands of times larger.
average human adult body contains about 10 trillion cells
There are aprox 10^9 (a billion) atoms on the point of a standard hospital needle point, a
human cell is a little bigger than that so I would guess 10^10 (10 billion)

in the center of every nucleus of every cell in our body our whole dna code is stored

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