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submitted 1 year ago by zirzedolta@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some 'organic element' since I couldn't accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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[-] beteljuice@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

Your bones are made of calcium, which is also a metal. You've got a metal frame inside your body.

[-] niels@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hate to burst your bubble, but the calcium inside your bones is not in a metallic form but as calciumphosphate. So no metal frame but one made of a salt I guess.

[-] beteljuice@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The thing that started this conversation is hemoglobin, which is also not metallic but a protein. I don't think anyone was confused and thought that there's actually shiney silvery elemental metallic calcium in our body.

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