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What's The Normal Constituents Of Urine?

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Normally people produce about 1-2 litres of urine a day however the amount varies per day depending on how much you drink, stress levels, illness etc. Typically yellow-amber the colour of urine varies according to diet and concentration; drinking more water generally means your wee will be less concentrated.
The PH of normal urine is generally in the range of 4.6-8, a typical average being around 6. Again variations tend to be related to diet. So, what is urine made up of? Approximately 95% of the volume of urine is due to water and 5% consists of chemicals that are dissolved in water.
Solutes found in urine may be classified as irons or organic molecules including urea, uric acid, creatinine, sodium chloride, hormones, carbohydrates, fatty acids, enzymes, mucins and pigments. Some ions include: Potassium, magnesium, calcium, chloride, aluminium, phosphates and sulphates. The odour of urine may provide health information. For example, if you are diabetic you may have sweet or fruity smelling urine because of the presence of ketones (organic molecules of a particular structure) in your body.
Generally fresh urine is not strong smelling and if it smells pungent it is due to ammonia. Some information about the organic molecules in urine: Urea is an organic compound derived from ammonia and produced by amino acids; Creatinine is a normal constituent of blood and uric acid is an organic compound. The Ions in your urine are atoms or groups of atoms that have, depending on their electrical charge, either lost or gained electrons.Given that urine is mostly water its density is slightly greater than 1
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95% of the urine is water. Remaining 5% contains urea, uric acid, creatinine, sodium chloride, hormones, carbohydrates, fatty acids, enzymes, mucins and pigments. Some ions are also present in urine like sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, chloride, aluminum, phosphates and sulfates.
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Urea,uric acid, creatinine and pigments
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Urine is actually the liquid waste of the body which is secreted by the kidneys after filtration from blood. The Urine is excreted through the Urethra.

Urine is basically transparent in color which is usually colorless or pale yellow or even amber. It is slightly acidic in nature. It is an aqueous solution which consists of

- Urea
- Dissolved salts
- Organic compounds

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== Approx. 95% of the volume of normal urine is due to water.  ==    == The other 5% consists of solutes (chemicals that are  dissolved in the water).  Some of these solutes are the results of  normal biochemical activity within the cells of the body. Other solutes  may be due to chemicals that originated outside of the body, such as  pharmaceutical drugs.    Solutes found in urine may be classified  as ions (i.e. Single elements that are positively or negatively charged  due to loss or acquisition of one or more electrons from/to the  outer-levels of the atom), or organic molecules (i.e. Several, sometimes  many, atoms that have joined together to form a group of atoms called a  "molecule"; "organic" molecules are formed from groups, rings, or  chains of carbon atoms and are the "building blocks" of the living  things on the earth - i.e. Plants and animals).
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95% of the volume of the normal urine is due to water, the other 5% is consist of solute(chemicals that are dissolve in water)
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Water, creatinine urea uric acid sodium potassium ammonium sulphate phosphates

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