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How fast does blood flow in a human body?

How fast does blood flow in a human body?


How fast does blood flow in a human body?

Posted: 31 Dec 2019 09:12 PM PST

How fast and how far does blood flow with each pump of the human heart?

How much force does the average human heart contract with?

How does oxygen get transferred to every cell in the body, is there a capillary leading to every individual cell?

And how exactly does blood get through tiny areas in the body, is there some mechanism for even distribution of pressure? (The blood in my pinky toe is so far from the heart, how does it get back?)

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What would happen if you boiled bleach? (sodium hypochlorite bleach not oxygen bleach)

Posted: 31 Dec 2019 09:54 PM PST

How come when a person yawns while listening to music,the music sounds different?

Posted: 01 Jan 2020 02:26 AM PST

Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology

Posted: 01 Jan 2020 07:12 AM PST

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Is there a temperature below which a match will no longer strike?

Posted: 31 Dec 2019 11:37 AM PST

How does eating in abnormal quantities (e.g. morbidly obese people) affect frequency of defecation and quantity?

Posted: 31 Dec 2019 08:58 AM PST

Basically, I was wondering if people who eat in huge quantities defecate multiple times per day or if they simply defecate in larger amounts but regular frequency.

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What might be the incidence of undetected cancer (all kinds) that the immune system stops before it becomes a clinical issue?

Posted: 31 Dec 2019 10:04 AM PST

Checkpoint inhibitors "take the breaks off" the immune system to enable it to attack tumors that express e.g. PD-1. This leads me to wonder how frequently an individual might have somatic mutations that are potentially carcinogenic, but the immune system destroys the mutated cell lines before it ever becomes a clinical issue.

Obviously there aren't epidemiological studies detailing the incidence of this, but I'm wondering if my line of thinking above is correct, and if it is, what might be a reasonable estimate if the frequency of this happening over the lifetime of an individual, or incidence across the population as a whole.

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How to make a beaker disappear?

Posted: 31 Dec 2019 05:20 PM PST

I saw this video on Twitter where a smaller beaker inserted into a larger one gradually becomes invisible as a liquid that looks denser than water is gradually poured into it. The explanation the gave was that the liquid and the beaker had the same refractive index but I believe there's more to it than that. I look forward to having someone shed some light on this. The link to the video: https://twitter.com/PhysicsVideo_/status/1208729536117927936?s=19

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What in your body actually causes an orgasm?

Posted: 30 Dec 2019 04:17 PM PST

Is there a certain concentration of specific hormones needed to cause an orgasm?

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