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minus-squareDoYouNot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·21 days agoHazarding a guess, but I think it’s referring to something like “the biologically mediated reduction of iron”.
minus-squareEngywuck@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·21 days agoI’d have guessed iron+carbon, instead (so, steel).
minus-squarelemming741@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·21 days agoLots of carbon = iron Little bit of carbon = steel Zero carbon = iron It’s confusing, I know
Hazarding a guess, but I think it’s referring to something like “the biologically mediated reduction of iron”.
I’d have guessed iron+carbon, instead (so, steel).
Lots of carbon = iron
Little bit of carbon = steel
Zero carbon = iron
It’s confusing, I know