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> Iodine is a critical micronutrient in the human diet — that is, something our bodies can’t synthesize For this I am thankful. If your body DOES start synthes
by jrootabega 2y ago
> Iodine is a critical micronutrient in the human diet — that is, something our bodies can’t synthesize
For this I am thankful. If your body DOES start synthesizing iodine, you and those around you probably don't have much longer left to live.
- frabert 2y agoI long for the day when my liver can also act as a particle accelerator
- xattt 2y agoThe kidneys? A pair of calutrons.
- altairprime 2y agosmiles in katalepsis
- blueflow 2y agoExplanation: Iodine is a molecular element, it consists out of only one type of atom. Atoms being synthesized implies some nuclear reaction or decay going on, both would cause radiation.
- iugtmkbdfil834 2y agoThank you. For the life of me I could not figure out why that is true.
- MawKKe 2y agoI mean, it's possible that at some point evolution produced such nuclear reactored individual, but who got "naturally selected" rather quickly for obvious reasons
- jaggederest 2y agoIf you read some of the Dune supplementary materials, the sandworms are biological nuclear reactors. It's kinda handwavey but it's a cool concept - how do you keep a creature the size of a freight train moving constantly in a very thick medium... how about harvesting fissionables?
- tzs 2y agoSee the Isaac Asimov story "Pâté de Foie Gras" from the September 1956 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, available here [1] on the Internet Archive. [1] https://archive.org/details/sim_astounding-science-fiction_1956-09_58_1/page/103/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/sim_astounding-science-fiction_1...
- cubefox 2y agoYeah, from Wikipedia: > An essential nutrient is a nutrient required for normal physiological function that cannot be synthesized in the body (...) The nutrients considered essential for humans comprise nine amino acids, two fatty acids, thirteen vitamins, fifteen minerals and choline. While some of these can be synthesized by other animals, this is not the case of minerals like iodine. I believe only organic compounds can be synthesized by animals.
- SAI_Peregrinus 2y agoOur bodies can synthesize several inorganic compounds, and other organisms can synthesize even more. There are biological sources of $H_{2}O$, $NH_{4}^{+}$, $NO$, $HCO_{3}^{−}$, $HPO_{4}^{2−}$, and (traditionally considered inorganic despite having carbon) $CO_{2}$. Iodine is an element, not a compound, and can only be synthesized through nuclear processes, not chemical ones.
- morjom 2y agoWhat is this kind of notation from/based on? e.g $H_{2}O$
- varenc 2y agoLooks like LaTeX syntax.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoLaTeX would be \(H_{2}O\) – or, more likely, \ce{H2O} or \ch{H2O}.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoThat's TeX. Every time Donald Knuth gets distracted from writing The Art of Computer Programming, he makes another piece of load-bearing infrastructure. (TeX came about because the second edition of Volume 1 didn't look as nice as the first edition.)
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- poulpy123 2y agoor you become the main character of a superhero comics