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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What's organic iron?

[–] SandmanXC 151 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same as iron but costs 30% more

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

The correct answer here.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Looks like iron sulfide, pyrite, and greigite in this case.

Highlights from this rabbit hole: "imbricating chitinous sclerites" and "conchiolin".

https://www.marinebio.org/species/scaly-foot-snails/chrysomallon-squamiferum/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15522-3

https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-abstract/114/4/949/2415936

[–] reinei 8 points 1 month ago

Wait GregTech has its own iron ores in real life now as well‽

[–] DoYouNot 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hazarding a guess, but I think it's referring to something like "the biologically mediated reduction of iron".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd have guessed iron+carbon, instead (so, steel).

[–] lemming741 15 points 1 month ago

Lots of carbon = iron
Little bit of carbon = steel
Zero carbon = iron

It's confusing, I know

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

organic iron plates, not plates of organic iron.

the plates are generated by an organic process, not out of organic materials.

you can't just remove a word from the context and act as if that doesn't change the meaning.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

organic iron plates, not plates of organic iron. the plates are generated by an organic process, not out of organic materials.

Makes sense, thanks

you can’t just remove a word from the context and act as if that doesn’t change the meaning.

Well, I'm not a native english speaker and the title seemed at least misleading.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

fair enough! I see now that my comment might look a little antagonizing, that was not what I wanted to express, sorry bout that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

No problem, man. Languages are bitches!