Re: Re: water weight

[Sarah Ralston <ralston@AESOP.RUTGERS.EDU>]

At 09:35 AM 12/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Ok.  Don't flame me for my math skills (or lack there of).  I do not claim
>to be a college graduate, and hereby disclaim any accuracy of the number
>presented below. ;-)
>
>I had to use glucose, because I could not find the chemical formula for
>glycogen in my zoology text, and I used this web site to convert glucose
>mmol's to grams.
>
>http://www.sci.ouc.bc.ca/chem/programmes/mm-find2.htm
>H12C6O6 = glucose = 0.18 g per mmol
>
>at 60 mmol per hour per kg
>a 1000 lb horse is ~454 kg
>454*60 is 27272 mmol. per hour of glycogen used
>1 mmol glucose (H12C6O6) = 0.18 g
>27272 mmol = 4909 g = 4.9 kg = 10.7 lbs. of glycogen used
>
>So 10.7 lbs glycogen for a 1000 lb horse per hour.  How does that sound??

Like an awful lot-Glycogen's formula is officially (C6-H10-O5)n-it is
basically 
a bunch of glucoses linked together, so I'm not even sure what a "mole" of
the stuff
would consist of: Beth?

Ti will be ecstatic. But I still maintain that normally endurance horses do 
not run on pure glycogen and glucose as he would like to have us believe. 
Sarah


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