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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by 8note on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:30PM (#28408348)
If you feed mercury to the chicken as a chixk, then eat it as an adult, do you get the mercury?
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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by josephcsible on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:35AM (#28412644)
Life can create, modify, and break chemical bonds, but can't create, modify, or destroy elements. Vitamins can get metabolized into other compounds but mercury stays mercury.
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Re:RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 percent m... by robbedpeter on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:32AM (#28412631)
This thread reads like a Monty Python sketch.

Because... fertilizer is mercury!

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