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Re:Down on the farm that harvests metal from plants by jessaustin on Sunday March 01, 2020 @03:17PM (#22459005)
In the areas where they evolved, they've presumably been present for a very long time. Human action could possibly increase their nickel-concentrating abilities by some small multiplier, but that won't turn human timescales into geologic timescales.
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Re:Down on the farm that harvests metal from plants by Talanes on Monday March 02, 2020 @12:41AM (#22461940)
Those trees would overwhelmingly be falling and decomposing in the same soil they grew in though, so the movement of minerals out of the soil would be minimized.
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