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Human beings inhale air from the atmosphere. The air consists of oxygen, nitrogen, but also of carbon dioxide with a concentration of 0.038% Vol., as allready mentioned. In the exhaled air is missing 4% Vol. oxygen, but there appear 4% Vol. carbon dioxide. The combustion of the food ingested therefore needs oxygen, and because every type of human food contains carbon, this also results in carbon dioxide.
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Stan, C. (2022). Energy versus carbon dioxide in the nutrition of other living beings. In: Energy versus Carbon Dioxide. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64162-0_3
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