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How are dietary iron and wrought iron fence different?
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Chemistry: In the fence, it's all iron atoms, sharing electrons, only a few other kinds of atoms. Iron in the diet is composed of solitary iron atoms complexed to organic compounds that it is helping make work for the organism that you ate.
Answered 10/14/2012
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