What is a booger made of?
Boogers are mucus (myoo-kuss). Mucus is the thin, slippery material
that is found inside your nose. Many people call mucus snot. Your nose
makes nearly a cupful of snot every day. Snot is produced by the
mucous membranes in the nose, which it moistens and protects.
When you inhale air through your nose, it contains lots of tiny
particles, like dust, dirt, germs, and pollen. If these particles made
it all the way to the lungs, the lungs could get damaged and it would
be difficult to breathe. Snot works by trapping the particles and
keeping them in the nose.
After these particles get stuck inside the nose, the mucus surrounds
them along with some of the tiny hairs inside the nose called cilia.
The mucus dries around the particles. When the particles and dried-out
mucus clump together, you're left with a booger!
Boogers can be squishy and slimy or tough and crumbly. In fact,
boogers are a sign that your nose is working properly.
What is a fart and why does it smell?
Ever pull someone's finger and hear a weird noise come out of his or
her butt?
Ever sit in a tub of water and see bubbles come out of your hiney?
This strange noise and vibrating sensation that came from your butt is
most likely caused by a fart.
A fart is a combination of gases (nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen,
methane, and hydrogen sulfide) that travels from a person's stomach to
their anus. When a person swallows too much air or eats foods that the
human digestive system cannot digest easily gas becomes trapped in
his/her stomach. The only way for this excess gas to exit the body is
through the anus.
The gas that makes your farts stink is the hydrogen sulfide gas. This
gas contains sulfur which causes farts to have a smelly odor. The more
sulfur rich your diet, the more your farts will stink. Some foods that
cause really smelly farts include: beans, cabbage, cheese, soda, and
eggs.
A scientific name for a fart is flatus or flatulence.
The word fart is just one of many different terms used to describe the
release of gasses from the human body. Other popular names for farts
or farting include: gassers, stinkers, air biscuits, bombers, barking
spiders, rotten eggs, and wet ones. You can pass gas, break wind,
blast, beef, poof, rip one, let one fly, step on a duck, and cut the
cheese.
Farts can be stinky, wet, loud, or silent but deadly. Pee-eeew!!!
Did you know?
On the average, a healthy person farts 16 times a day.
Hey guys, don't be fooled by girls who tell you that they never fart.
Everyone farts, including girls. In fact, females fart just as much as
males.
Many animals fart too. Cats, dogs, and cows. Elephants fart the most.
People fart the most in their sleep.
Farts that contain a large amount of methane & hydrogen can be
flammable.
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