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Heavy Metals (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (11 children)

What's organic iron?

[–] DoYouNot 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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

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

[–] lemming741 14 points 1 day ago

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

It's confusing, I know

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