Every living organism uses tiny quantities of metals to carry out biological functions, including breathing, transcribing DNA, turning food into energy, or any number of essential life processes.

I also show a far from perfect extraction process to remove the sodium from the slag. It accomplishes its purpose, however inefficiently.

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