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Can you eat carbon

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Yes, try eating activated charcoal. It tastes awful and turns everything it touches black, but it won't hurt you and will reduce any problem you have with gas and is frequently given orally in poisoning cases to adsorb the poison (especially if the exact poison is not known and immediate treatment of some sort is needed). However pure carbon can't be digested, so it goes all the way through.

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yes, but some say it can have long term side effects like increasing the chance of cancer, burnt food is carbon fro example burnt toast

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Just like humans do they breathe it out. They then remove carbon when they eat. This is part of the natural carbon cycle, and does not add extra CO2 to the atmosphere.


Does respiration decrease or increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

Respiration (breathing) has no effect on the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Breathing is part of the carbon cycle. We take in carbon in our food and drink and we release it again when we breathe. If we eat too much, the extra carbon is stored in our bodies, making us fatter, in much the same way as a tree stores carbon in its wood as it grows.So breathing does not increase or decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.


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How does carbon get in your body?

from what you eat or do in working.


How do animals in water get carbon?

Plants contain carbon and they eat the plants


Does algae eat carbon-dioxide?

yes it does


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Where do animals obtain carbon?

From the plants or animals they eat.


How does a rabbit get carbon it needs?

Plants need carbon as well. So, when rabbits eat plants they get the carbon inside the plants into their bodies!


How does carbon get into the herbivore?

The carbon in the plants that herbivores eat is broken down by the gut. This some carbon is returned to environment through exhalation.


How do living things store carbon?

Carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, is converted by plants into sugars and starches during photosynthesis. The plants convert this into proteins etc.Animals then eat the plants....when they breath they get carbon dioxideand you get it when you eat a plant


Are animals primary consumers of carbon?

Not really, plants absorb the carbon from their surroundings and herbivores eat the plants and take up the oxygen. Then carnivorous animals eat the herbivores and in turn they also take up carbon.


What is some interesting info on carbon?

carbon is really cool and can eat all the carbon you want, it is actually one of the only things you should eat because its really healthy for you and can use it on cuts and sores. it is 20$ for a pound of it:))


What do you eat for breakfast and dinner every night?

Carbon


Is there any gas that you eat?

It is possible to breathe in carbon dioxide because if you smoke, you will breathe in carbon dioxide.