What’s the difference between Iron That we consume and Iron that we use to make swords/Armors/Bullets
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Iron was in everyday life is today most steel. That is an ally with iron, other metal, and carbon. It could Mild stele can contain 99% iron 0.9% manganese and 0.1% carbon. In practice, there are small amounts of other metals and nonmetal iron will be in the high 90%.
You could make metal of just iron atoms the problem is that is mechanical properties is a lot work so we make mostly different types of steel.
The iron in flood is iron that has reacted with other molecules. You can compare it to rust which is iron that has reacted with oxygen, its chemical formula is Fe2O3 so 3 oxygen atoms per 2 iron atoms. That is still 70% iron by mass but each iron atom is heavier. But it is chemical compounds with lost of nonmetallic atoms and not just other iron atoms.
You can eat rust, It is stable and easy to and your body can use it so commonly used as an iron supplement if diest requires that. Iron oxide is also a pigment often use to color stuff in include food. Do not ches on rust you just find but if it is just iron oxide and not in large clumps it is safe to eat in a small amount.
If you look a the chemical formula of Heme that is the form Iron has in our blood. Some of the iron will eat will just be from animal sources It has a lot more complex chemical formula than rust. But is more like rust than metallic iron because the iron atoms are in molecules with lots of nonmetal atoms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heme
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