What is Flatulence?
'''Flatulence''' (commonly known as '''Farting''' or '''passing gas''') is when [[gas]] leaves the [[anus]]. This sometimes happens with a [[sound]] that can be [[wikt:embarrassing|embarrassing]] to some people, but in some [[culture]]s it is treated like [[humor]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://draxe.com/flatulence/|title=Do You Fart a Lot? Here's What Your Flatulence (& Its Smell) Means|newspaper=Dr. Axe|accessdate=2018-02-20|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-05-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529025806/https://draxe.com/flatulence/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The word flatulence comes from the [[Latin]] word ''flatus'', which means [[wikt:blow|blowing]] or [[wikt:breath|breath]], but people today usually call it [[wikt:fart|farting]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2017/06/27/greek-words-for-flatulence/|title=Greek Words for Flatulence|date=2017-06-27|newspaper=SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE|accessdate=2018-02-20|language=en-US}}</ref> Children normally pass gas ''30'' ''times'' a day as their [[digestive system]] is not fully developed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nemours KidsHealth - the Web's most visited site about children's health|url=https://kidshealth.org/|access-date=2024-06-22|website=kidshealth.org|language=Spanish}}</ref> Adults on the other hand only let wind approximately 15 times a day.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-11-06|title=Farting: how much wind is too much?|url=https://www.topdoctors.co.uk/medical-articles/how-much-farting-is-normal|access-date=2024-11-07|website=Top Doctors|language=en-GB}}</ref> In [[mammals]] like [[humans]], the gases come from two sources: swallowed [[air]] (for example, while [[eating]], [[talking]] or [[drinking]]) and gases naturally created by [[bacteria]] in the body during [[digestion]]. Of the gases that come out during flatulence, most of it is [[nitrogen]] (which has the [[chemical formula]] N<sub>2</sub> and makes up between 21% to 89% of all the gases), followed by [[hydrogen]] (H₂), [[carbon dioxide]] (CO<sub>2</sub>), [[oxygen]] (O<sub>2</sub>) an