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“Mixed together like sand” ?

• collingreen 2y ago
  Sand is a bunch of tiny bits of a variety of things - we usually don't say micro-silica, micro-quartz, micro-etc and just bundle it together and describe the group as sand (unless explicitly trying to talk about an individual piece).
  • more-nitor 2y ago
    ...and wouldn't that actually be problematic in health-related research? I mean, it seems like saying copper/iron/titanium/lead are all "metal"