Explain why at least one of the atoms that you exhaled in your very first breath at birth will be in your next breath

What will be an ideal response?


The number of atoms you exhale with each breath is about the same as the number of liters of air in Earth's atmosphere. Assuming you're several years old, the atoms from your first breath are by now pretty well evenly distributed in the atmosphere. That means one of those atoms is in each liter of air, on average. But since your first breath was less than a liter, take two or three breaths to be sure!

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