• IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
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      Doesn’t exist. Some metals can form organometallic complexes (with CO, CN, methyl groups), in which case you get for instance “organic mercury” compounds. Iron can also do that, but that’s not what theyre talking about here.

      What they mean is “biogenic” iron. The snail precipitates dissolved iron and sulfur in the water to form its shell out of iron sulfide. Its a different physical structure, but chemically similar to iron pyrite (fools gold).

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      Hazarding a guess, but I think it’s referring to something like “the biologically mediated reduction of iron”.

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      organic iron plates, not plates of organic iron.

      the plates are generated by an organic process, not out of organic materials.

      you can’t just remove a word from the context and act as if that doesn’t change the meaning.

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        organic iron plates, not plates of organic iron. the plates are generated by an organic process, not out of organic materials.

        Makes sense, thanks

        you can’t just remove a word from the context and act as if that doesn’t change the meaning.

        Well, I’m not a native english speaker and the title seemed at least misleading.

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          fair enough! I see now that my comment might look a little antagonizing, that was not what I wanted to express, sorry bout that.