Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Snail has metal armour, almost

The scaly-foot gastropod, a snail, is a denizen of deep ocean hydrothermal vents and has iron sulphide plates on its ‘foot’ and an iron sulphide coating on its shell, making it unique in the animal kingdom. This inorganic compound is one of the ores from which iron is extracted, and once of its forms is ...

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from Electronics Weekly https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/engineer-in-wonderland/snail-metal-armour-almost-2017-11/

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