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If you had to have your bones be made of something other than calcium, what would it be?
https://interestingengineering.com/a-bone-like-metal-foam-is-showing-wolverine-like-healing-properties

>> No.12717312

>>12717305
So if the early "fish" creatures didn't use calcium to strenghten their bodies?
What else was available?

>> No.12717318

Diamonds because its the hardest metal known to man

>> No.12717321

>>12717312
Yes

>> No.12717328

>>12717305
Magnesium, as magnesoum based cements are stronger than calcium based ones.

>> No.12717330

Antimatter

>> No.12717361

>>12717305
That's his leg

>> No.12717362

>>12717318
Diamonds are extremely brittle.

>> No.12717393

>>12717362
>>12717328
What about titatium?

>> No.12717400

>>12717305
What am I supposed to be seeing here?

>> No.12717407

>>12717305
>what would it be?
titanium or some nice anti-corrosion metal like gold

>> No.12717410

>>12717305
The red line between those two is the man's leg, not his arm. You can easily see by looking at how it looks nothing like a arm, but the shin part of the leg.

>> No.12717412
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12717412

>>12717318
>diamonds
>metal

>> No.12717793

>>12717412
It has some attributes of metal so people sometimes misclassify it as one.

>> No.12717961

>>12717793
>>12717412
Maybe if we tried hard enough we could make it real
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen

>> No.12718039

>>12717305
Carbon fibre