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		8note on Sept 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50 pe... If you feed mercury to the chicken as a chixk, then eat it as an adult, do you get the mercury?

josephcsible on Sept 4, 2021 | [–]

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.

robbedpeter on Sept 4, 2021 | [–]

This thread reads like a Monty Python sketch.

Because... fertilizer is mercury!

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