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Originally posted by kutulu
That's not quite true. There are many acid/base reactions going on in the body, expecially in the stomach. Water is used in lots of organic chemistry reactions.
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True, in a way, water in the presene of an acid/base does freely exchange a hydrogen, but in the end.. ..it is a such a small gain/loss in the quantity of water. I think that it was someone's assumption that water was broken down at its smallest elements for the body to utilitze. It would be great if we could ingest water and strip the oxygen from the molecule and be able to use that oxygen for metabolism. Wishful thinking..
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Mass and enery are not conserved during nuclear reactions.
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Assuming there is not an abundance of nuclear reactions inside the body, we do not have to consider this... Nonetheless, you are correct.
-SF