After hydrogen and oxygen, which element makes up almost all of the most common substances in your body?

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Biology

Linda Lozano

19 June, 21:10

After hydrogen and oxygen, which element makes up almost all of the most common substances in your body?

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Lewis Wilkerson · Answer 1

I believe its Carbon

Annika Chandler · Answer 2

By weight, oxygen makes up approximately 65% of the human body. Numerically, hydrogen approaches 65% of the total number of atoms in the human body, but it is ... probably closer to 63% for most people. Accounting by Mass: The mass of the human body is provided mostly by oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen.