Timeline for what makes our body warm?
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| Oct 25, 2015 at 16:43 | comment | added | Roland | Respiration is certainly a large component, but I'm not sure it's the largest. Basically it amounts to how large the free energy of a reaction is and what fraction of that energy is released as heat. I don't have the numbers, but certainly muscle contraction is a large component too. | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 23:47 | comment | added | TanMath | @Roland yes, but isn't cellular respiration the process in which most of the heat is generated? | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 8:00 | comment | added | Roland | Not only respiration generates heat; pretty much all cellular processes generate heat, including the usage of ATP to drive various things. Muscle contraction is a large contribution. | |
| Oct 24, 2015 at 1:00 | history | answered | TanMath | CC BY-SA 3.0 |