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Differential Sublimation Rates of Light and Tritium-labelled Water

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WATER is an important component of the body, and the only one that can be measured directly. Body water is also useful, however, to obtain an estimate of body fat. Body water plus body density information enables one to estimate body fat with a precision of approximately 2–4 per cent when the following equation is used : where D is the density of the body, and TBW is the total body water, as a proportion of body weight1.

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  1. Metabolic Diseases Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

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MOORE, R., BUSKIRK, E. Differential Sublimation Rates of Light and Tritium-labelled Water. Nature 189, 149–151 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189149a0

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