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Q: Is glucose a chemical fuel for muscles?
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What is the chemical substance involved exercising?

Glucose is the "fuel" for muscles.


What is the chemical energy in muscles?

the chemical is glucose.


What is the fuel that makes your muscles work?

glucose


What do all muscles have a store, of which used for fuel?

Glucose can be used immediately as fuel, or can be sent to the liver and muscles and stored as glycogen. During exercise, muscle glycogen is converted back into glucose, which only the muscle fibers can use as fuel.


What is the chemical substance involve in exercising?

Glucose is the "fuel".


How do muscles produce energy?

muscles use chemical energy in glucose , as the bonds in glucose break, chemical energy changes to mechanical energy and the muscle contracts.. well there you go that how you produce mechanical energy :)


What is the primary fuel for the brain in-between meals?

Glucose assuming you have normal hours in between meals. Your livers and muscles have glucose stores (glycogen) that fuel the hours in between meals.


When a cell needs energy's does it breaks down the chemical glycogen?

Glycogen is made and stored in the cells of the liver and muscles until it is needed for energy. Glycogen phosphorylase is the primary enzyme of glycogen breakdown into glucose. Glucose derived from liver glycogen is the primary source of blood glucose used by the rest of the body for fuel.


What provides power to move joints and bones?

Muscles. Glucose is burned to provide the fuel for muscle cells to perform their work.


What is a chemical formula for glucose?

The chemical formula for glucose is C6H12O6.


What is the name of substance that is the chemical bi-product of turning glucose into ATP and what does it do to your muscles?

Lactic acid. It lets your muscles function with a lack of oxygen (anaerobic respiration instead of aerobic respiration).


The chemical formula for glucose is?

The chemical formula for glucose is C6H12O6.