Editing Candy Conflagration (section)

====Biology====

A combustion reaction uses a heat source, a fuel source, and Oxygen. Combustion reactions are a common type of decomposition reaction, and our bodies regularly use decomposition reactions to get energy out of the food we eat. The reaction we have here uses candy, which contains a lot of sugar. Sugars are simple molecules which store a lot of energy in their bonds. Our bodies can break down sugars, such as glucose, in what we call a ''Clean'' Decomposition:

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|+Glucose Decomposition
| '''C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>12</sub>O<sub>6</sub>(s)''' + 6 '''O<sub>2</sub>(g)''' → 6 '''CO<sub>2</sub>(g)''' + 6 '''H<sub>2</sub>O(g)''' + Heat (2807 kJ/mol)
|}

Unlike the Candy Conflagration demo, our bodies can break down sugars fully into carbon dioxide, water and heat. Our bodies do store extra energy reserves in fat, but if we consume a lot of extra food we build up a lot of fat. When we are doing more strenuous tasks such as heavy lifting or running, our bodies will then do this decomposition reaction to get the energy stored away. This leads to a surprising result about how we lose weight; the water and CO<sub>2</sub> that we produce are in the gas state. This means that, when we are losing weight, we actually lose a lot of it by ''breathing it out''! 

We get a LOT of energy from this decomposition, which is then transported throughout our bodies to where we need it. In our demonstration, we use only a small serving of candy; when we use Nerds, we only use ten of them, which is approximately equal to 2.2 Calories. Keep in mind that '''C'''alories stands for '''kilo'''calories, which means that our ten Nerds provided 2,200 calories of energy! When converted to Joules, this means that we can get about 9,300 Joules of energy from our Nerds, which is enough to send an average tennis ball nearly ''ten miles'' upwards! Ten Nerds isn't a whole lot of energy for us though; the average adult needs anywhere between 1400 and 2000 Calories every day. This means that the average adult needs at least '''''six million Joules''''' of energy a day! This energy is what we use to maintain our body temperature, move, eat, sleep, breathe, talk, and process everything that we experience with our brains.