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Q: Why fingernails grow slowly?
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What is a way to make your fingernails grow more slowly?

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Do plate movements move slowly or quickly?

Slowly. It has been compared to the rate at which our fingernails grow.


How often do your fingernails grow?

Nails don't grow step by step, unless you look at the cellular, molecular level. They grow slowly, all the time.


How often do fingernails grow?

Nails don't grow step by step, unless you look at the cellular, molecular level. They grow slowly, all the time.


How fast does you're fingernails grow?

Don't you mean, "how fast do your fingernails grow?"


Why do boys fingernails grow faster than girls?

Trick question.! Fingernails do not grow in either;


Does money grow on fingernails?

AHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! (ROFL) I do not understand your question. It might be a saying. Money doesn't grow on fingernails.


Are there cases where the toe nails grow faster than the fingernails?

My toenails definitely grow faster than my fingernails. I must be one of the unusual people in this world because everything I read sayd that fingernails grow faster. I know for a fact that my toenails grow faster, but I have no idea why. I wish my fingernails would grow as fast as my toenails! I don't think that toenails grow faster than fingernails, it's that toenails tend to be stronger so they don't break as easily. That's why it seems to some people that their toenails are growing faster than their fingernails; Fingernails are more susceptible to breakage because they are thinner.


What cell makes hair and fingernails grow?

A keratinocyte is the cell from which hair and fingernails are derived.


Do fingernails grow at different rates on the same hand?

No, fingernails do not grow at different rates on the same hand. They do however grow at different rates on the more dominate hand.


Why do toenails grow faster than fingernails?

They don't. It's actually fingernails that grow faster than toe nails.. but why.. good question..


Can you survive if you only eat your fingernails?

No. Fingernails are made of a protein called keratin, and contain no carbohydrates or other nutrients that your body can metabolize to produce energy. However, even if fingernails were made of pure sugar, they grow far too slowly. The amount you'd be able to eat each day wouldn't be nearly enough to sustain you.