Where do the carbon atoms that we are exhaling come from?

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Where do the carbon atoms that we are exhaling come from?

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Our body combines oxygen we breath in with sugars to make the chemical energy we use to move around and have body functions. Those sugars are carbon based and the reaction breaks them apart and produces CO2, which we breath out.

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