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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

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Originally posted by @kewpie
Are you a phosphate compound?
I’all repost the whole enchilada if warranted.

Yes I am a phosphate compound. Ideally we are going for the exact compound although arguably there are 2 or 3 ok alternatives.

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Originally posted by @js357
I’all repost the whole enchilada if warranted.

Yes I am a phosphate compound. Ideally we are going for the exact compound although arguably there are 2 or 3 ok alternatives.
There are dozens of those.

Apatite?

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Originally posted by @shallow-blue
There are dozens of those.

Apatite?
Yes. I thought about going with fluorapatite but found apatite fit the bill with the general formula

Ca10(P04,C03)6(F,Cl,OH)

Where various combinations of the anions can appear, so long as there is some PO4 present. This is documented at

https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1252d/report.pdf

So apatite it is.

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Originally posted by @js357
So apatite it is.
Just in time for lunch.

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Originally posted by @kewpie
I am a vegetable.
1. Have you been on my dinner plate during the past year? No.
2. Would my rabbit happily eat you? No.
3. Are you eaten raw or cooked? Neither, I'm not normally eaten.
4. Are you in any sense of the word farmed, as opposed to mainly occurring in the wild? I'm widespread throughout the natural world, and in some places I am also farme ...[text shortened]... n’t call wood now? Yes
8. Are you a newspaper? I can be, but I can also be many other things.
peat moss

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Originally posted by @venda
Excellent!!
I thought it would take longer than that.
Well done my friend
Ah. I think we mined the moon a little. Moon rocks NASA?

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Originally posted by @js357
Yes. I thought about going with fluorapatite but found apatite fit the bill with the general formula

Ca10(P04,C03)6(F,Cl,OH)

Where various combinations of the anions can appear, so long as there is some PO4 present. This is documented at

https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1252d/report.pdf

So apatite it is.
Right, my turn.

I am vegetable in origin.

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Would my grandmother recognise you as food?

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Originally posted by @kewpie
Would my grandmother recognise you as food?
I am vegetable in origin.
1. Would my grandmother recognise you as food?
Yes.

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Are you normally eaten cooked?

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Originally posted by @kewpie
Are you normally eaten cooked?
I am vegetable in origin.
1. Would my grandmother recognise you as food?
Yes.
2. Are you normally eaten cooked?
Only by stretching those terms, but I am consumed hot.

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Originally posted by @shallow-blue
I am vegetable in origin.
1. Would my grandmother recognise you as food?
Yes.
2. Are you normally eaten cooked?
Only by stretching those terms, but I am consumed hot.
Are you normally consumed in liquid form, like tea, some soups, etc.?

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Originally posted by @js357
Are you normally consumed in liquid form, like tea, some soups, etc.?
I am vegetable in origin.
1. Would my grandmother recognise you as food?
Yes.
2. Are you normally eaten cooked?
Only by stretching those terms, but I am consumed hot.
3. Are you normally consumed in liquid form, like tea, some soups, etc.?
Aha! You are too clever, my boy. Yes, but I am a specific one of those.

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Originally posted by @shallow-blue
I am vegetable in origin.
1. Would my grandmother recognise you as food?
Yes.
2. Are you normally eaten cooked?
Only by stretching those terms, but I am consumed hot.
3. Are you normally consumed in liquid form, like tea, some soups, etc.?
Aha! You are too clever, my boy. Yes, but I am a specific one of those.
Are you a particular kind of tea?

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Originally posted by @js357
Are you a particular kind of tea?
I am vegetable in origin.
1. Would my grandmother recognise you as food?
Yes.
2. Are you normally eaten cooked?
Only by stretching those terms, but I am consumed hot.
3. Are you normally consumed in liquid form, like tea, some soups, etc.?
Aha! You are too clever, my boy. Yes, but I am a specific one of those.
4. Are you a particular kind of tea?
Yes. But which?