Re: E <=> MC^2 generally ...and also inside living things!

From: G. R. L. Cowan (gcowan_at_eagle.ca)
Date: 08/11/04


Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:39:25 -0400

Eric Gisin wrote:
>
> "Harry Conover" <hhc314@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:7ce4e226.0408111034.3f2ac06f@posting.google.com...
> > "Duane C. Johnson" <redrok@redrok.com> wrote in message
> news:<41198A54.2770C676@redrok.com>...
> >
> > > Energy mass conversion still happens even at this small scale.
> >
> > It has never been observed to happen. In any chemical or biochemical
> > reaction, the mass of the reactants alway precisely equals the mass of
> > the reaction products.
> >
> The mass change is probably too small to measure. Since chemical reactions are
> millions times less powerful than fusion, chemical mass change is in parts per
> billion.

Google ("Weighing chemical bonds").

--- Graham Cowan
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