TABLE 1.
Theoretically and experimentally obtained atomic percentage (at %) of elements at the surface of reference samples.
| Fungal references | Theory (at %) | Experiment (at %) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | N | O | P | Na | Cl | C | N | O | P | Na | Cl | |
| Melanin | 75 | 8 | 17 | 64 | 12 | 19 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Mannan | 55 | 45 | 65 | 3 | 32 | 0 | ||||||
| Galactoseamine HCl | 46 | 8 | 38 | 8 | 52 | 7 | 35 | 6 | ||||
| N-acetyl galactoseamine | 53 | 7 | 40 | 57 | 6 | 36 | ||||||
| Virus references | Theory (at %) | Experiment (at %) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | N | O | P | Na | Cl | C | N | O | P | Na | Cl | |
| Cholesterol | 96 | 4 | 97 | 3 | ||||||||
| Phospholipids | 81 | 17 | 80 | 1 | 17 | 1 | ||||||
| RNA a | 45 | 17 | 33 | 5 | 50 | 14 | 32 | 4 | ||||
| DNA a | 48 | 18 | 29 | 5 | 52 | 15 | 25 | 4 | ||||
a
Average of idealized structure consisting of equal amounts of nucleotides.