For example, the brown crust on atoaste d marshmallow is the result of sugar changing to iffer-ent substances in a mixture called caramel. A change in matterthat produces one or more new substances is a chemicalchange, or chemical reaction. The burning of gasoline in acarâs engine is a chemical change.
How much brain power does the average person use? About only 10% Though an alluring idea, the 10 percent myth is so wrong it is almost laughable, says neurologist Barry Gordon at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimorâ¦e.
Your brain is nourished by one of your body's richest networks of blood vessels. With each heartbeat, arteries carry about 20 to 25 percent of your blood to your brain, where billions of cells use about 20 percent of the oxygen and fuel your blood carries. When you are thinking hard, your brain may use up to 50 percent of the fuel and oxygen.