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Extracellular fluid is mainly consists of water with sodium chloride. It's about 154 miliosmoles per liter. There is calcium ion as well in much lesser concentration. The potassium is also there. It is 4.5 milliosmoles. There is little proteins, glucose, amino acids, fatty acids, oxygen and carbon bi oxide, vitamins and other minerals in very minute quantity.

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