The calorie/nutrient content of a shirt? LOL

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hey guys! i haven't posted in awhile ay, what a way to return
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lol!
yes, i'm being serious HAHA, i wanna know whether there are any calories/nutrients in say a t-shirt, a shirt or any sort of clothing, but mainly those two LOL.

Has anyone ever found any websites relating to this? and 1. i'm not crazy, i do NOT eat shirts, 2. i do not PLAN to eat shirts for desperate calories LOL, 3. someone asked me it, and i'm DETERMINED to find out! it's very hard to track this down.... lol

thanks guys!
 
How much protein, carbohydrate and fat does a shirt contain? Well, unless you are a messy eater that'd be squat doodly dandy.

Take a natural fiber like cotton:

From Wiki: <div></div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Cotton fiber, once it has been processed to remove seeds (ginning) and traces of honeydew (a secretion from aphids), protein, vegetable matter, and other impurities, consists of nearly pure cellulose, a natural polymer.
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As far as I know, we can't digest cellulose.
 
I was thinking about this the other day... calories are the energy from living or once living things. I suppose wood may have calories within it? Going even further, would something like coal (which comes from the compressed beds of soil from millions of years ago) have some calories?
 
Maybe. When I was a kid in Texas we used to eat the tar we peeled from cracks in the road for gum. Motor oil also has calories, but I wouldn't advise drinking it. (think &quot;Over the Top&quot; with Sylvester Stallone)
 
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(colby2152 @ Dec. 18 2007,09:01)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">I was thinking about this the other day... calories are the energy from living or once living things. I suppose wood may have calories within it? Going even further, would something like coal (which comes from the compressed beds of soil from millions of years ago) have some calories?</div>
Well, there are organisms that have wood as part of their diet.

Anyway, coal would have calories in it, they just probably aren't calories that most of us could use, since I don't know of any organisms that can digest coal. Maybe there are some out there?
 
a calorie is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree.

if you can convert the shirt, or anything for that matter, to a form of energy, say fire, then you can determine its caloric content.

How many burning t-shirts does it take to increase 1000 grams of water 100 degrees?

or how many burning chuck taylors, or how many burning bibles or whatever.
 
<div></div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">how many burning bibles or whatever. </div>

I'll disregard that last comment...

Is that a calorie or a kilocalorie that raises the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree (and Farenheit or Celsius)?
 
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(Totentanz @ Dec. 18 2007,10:48)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE"><div>
(colby2152 @ Dec. 18 2007,09:01)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">I was thinking about this the other day... calories are the energy from living or once living things.  I suppose wood may have calories within it?  Going even further, would something like coal (which comes from the compressed beds of soil from millions of years ago) have some calories?</div>
Well, there are organisms that have wood as part of their diet.

Anyway, coal would have calories in it, they just probably aren't calories that most of us could use, since I don't know of any organisms that can digest coal.  Maybe there are some out there?</div>
There are microbes, either naturally occurring or cultured in the lab, to digest just about everything.

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2001/bnlpr121101.htm
 
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(colby2152 @ Dec. 21 2007,23:43)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE"> <div></div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">how many burning bibles or whatever. </div>

I'll disregard that last comment...

Is that a calorie or a kilocalorie that raises the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree (and Farenheit or Celsius)?</div>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
 
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