{"id":479,"date":"2015-11-04T10:24:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T00:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyjenner.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2015-11-04T10:24:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T00:24:16","slug":"calcium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjenner.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Calcium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALCIUM&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Calcium, you know what that is, yes?\u00a0 Bones are made of it, right, and teeth, and limestone rocks and stuff?<\/p>\n<p>WRONG&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably never seen calcium in your life.\u00a0 And certainly never handled it.\u00a0 For calcium is a bright, silvery metal, and all the white rocky material, including your bones and teeth, are made of calcium rust.<\/p>\n<p>A piece of iron, or particularly steel, if left lying around outside for a week or so, will form a red-brown powder on its surface; rust, of course.\u00a0 If left long enough, the entire piece will be converted to rust by the action of air and moisture.\u00a0 Some soil consists mainly of rust; those rich, red soils, mined as ore, are actually iron rust, just as all that limestone in the land, like the White Cliffs of Dover, is mostly calcium rust.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of all creatures use calcium rust to make bones and teeth and shells, and seek it out in the environment for food, as we do.<\/p>\n<p>Strontium is a very similar metal to calcium, which is a worry, because when fallout from a a nuclear disaster contains radioactive strontium 90 &#8216;rust&#8217;, our bodies will absorb it as if it were useful for making bone and tooth, causing sickness and death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALCIUM&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Calcium, you know what that is, yes?\u00a0 Bones are made of it, right, and teeth, and limestone rocks and stuff? WRONG&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. You&#8217;ve probably never seen calcium in your life.\u00a0 And certainly never handled it.\u00a0 For calcium is a bright, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjenner.com\/?p=479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[219,217,218,222,224,229,227,226,208,228,225,221,223,220],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calcium","tag-bones","tag-calcium-carbonate","tag-calcium-metal","tag-calcium-sulphate","tag-iron","tag-iron-ore","tag-limestone","tag-oxide","tag-radiation-sickness","tag-red-soil","tag-rust","tag-shells","tag-strontium","tag-teeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjenner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjenner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjenner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjenner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjenner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andyjenner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/andyjenner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjenner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjenner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjenner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}