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Re:A tree that bleeds metal by Retric on Thursday September 06, 2018 @10:13AM (#17926409)
It's a different scale. Human blood is well under 0.08% iron, this tree has 25% nickel. So over 300x as concentrated.

PS: 4 grams of iron in a persons body, ~5kg of blood.

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Re:A tree that bleeds metal by Iem3ohvi on Thursday September 06, 2018 @12:47PM (#17927558)
The fluids also contain various electrolytes, i.e. metal cations. But still nowhere close to those trees.
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Re:A tree that bleeds metal by 13of40 on Thursday September 06, 2018 @10:40AM (#17926637)
The hemoglobin molecule itself only has something like one iron atom per 1000 non-iron atoms.
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Re:A tree that bleeds metal by Retric on Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:20AM (#17926897)
Yea it's: C2952 H4664 O832 N812 S8 Fe4 so 2315:1.
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