Redbird he/him Posted March 8, 2017 Posted March 8, 2017 It is shown in mistborn that some people burn the trace metals obtained through their diet and the water. Now, if a lurcher were to burn all of the iron in their that they had ingested, would that not lead to a chronic lack of dietary iron, as every last trace would be burnt, as is safe practice with consumed metals? 1
Weltall Posted March 8, 2017 Posted March 8, 2017 Probably not. Iron found in chemical compounds (ie what the body needs for nutrition, we don't consume iron in its pure form) wouldn't be perceived as burnable so it shouldn't be an issue.
Spoolofwhool Posted March 8, 2017 Posted March 8, 2017 I'm fairly certain that allomantic iron is iron in its elemental form. Iron we ingest, trapped in biological molecules and the like, are in its ionic form, and would be non-burnable. When they talked about people burning trace metals, we're talking about metal impurities, like scrappings from containers, ending up in the food, which is then ingested. This would be elemental, and therefore burnable. 2
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