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[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

It's within a percent.

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

The main substance that burns but doesn't necessarily get metabolized is dietary fiber, which is a category of some different polysaccharides that burn but don't get (fully) digested.

So high fiber foods would tend to give incorrect results in bomb calorimetry.

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