Answer given is half ounce per day.
I’ve been just about half dead for 10 days now from a bastard summer cold. I have to say I honestly believe if my car would run on snot I would have totally filled the 20 gallon gas tank on my 2000 Crown Victoria this week. Meaning half ounce is way under estimated. So by using a good old fashion rain gauge (yuck I know) I blew my nose into it for 24 hours. ( ok this is gross) Not counting what stuck to the side of the beaker and didn’t slide down to the bottom, I produced 7/10ths of an inch. Oh how I wish I had a gauge that graduated into ounces but just visually I can easily say there is much more than half an ounce. I mean holding a small pony bottle of “Miller High Life” beside the beaker there is an estimated 3 to 4 ounces. No I am not going to attempt to pour my viscous stringy nostril fluid from my rain gauge into the pony beer bottle ( as by now it would not slide from container to container). So I’m here to argue how the amount was quantified.
This does however bring me to an additional question. Could there be a use for my snot that my body has seamed to exert such an effort to produce? I did experiment by applying it to 2 pieces of paper and did have some success as a mild adhesive. What brought me to try this was one “highly loaded” tissue that I over shot my trash can and it has quite strongly stuck to the wall to the point I am going to need a paint scraper to remove it. Most likely paint down to damaging the sheet rock.
I’ve no idea on the possible uses of snot, but just wanted to mention that it’s probably quite cheap for your body to produce - it’s a gel of glycoproteins, but a little goes a long way - it’s mostly water.
Wouldn’t work on any rain gauge I’ve seen because they usually taper down so as to allow more accurate measurements of small amounts.
As Mangetout says, snot is mostly water. So just weighing then washing out the guage and re-weighing to get a weight of snot would be best. It would presumably convert weight to volume about the same as water.
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