Metabolism Experiment No. 77. 



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Table 161. Oxygen and carbon dioxide thermal quotients and respiratory 



quotients Continued. 



Relations between Carbon Dioxide Elimination, Oxygen Consumption, and Heat 



Production. 



The oxygen thermal quotients recorded in table 161 show no unusual fluctu- 

 ations aside from the very low quotient of the third day * and the average for 

 the 4 days, 29.6, is not particularly different from those observed in other ex- 

 periments. The carbon dioxide thermal quotient for 24 hours is highest on the 

 first day and gradually diminishes each day to the end of the experiment. As 

 is usual in the fasting experiments the respiratory quotient is highest on the 

 first day. It averages 0.75 for the last 3 days. 



1 See special discussion under Energy Balance, in Part 3 of this report. 



