Good morning Cohoes...Hellooooooo! - The Fact of the Day: stomach growling The sound your growling stomach makes is called borborygmi. It occurs when the stomach walls automatically squeeze together in an attempt to mix and digest food and theres no food there! The movement of gas through the intestines produces the gurgling sounds, too. In the resting state, there are usually about 200 milliliters of gas in the gastrointestinal tract. Its composition varies: between 20-90 percent is nitrogen, up to 10 percent is oxygen, up to 50 percent is hydrogen, up to 10 percent methane, and between 10-30 percent is carbon dioxide. The gases and digestive juices sloshing around inside the empty stomach and make a sound similar to word borborygmi! https://youtube/watch?v=bjmgzLVuWLU
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:08:28 +0000
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