Our body needs iron certain foods are rich in Iron and iron tablets are usually recommended by Doctors but neither the foods nor the tablets are hard like Iron explain

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This is because the iron in our food or in our tablets is in the form of compounds. The properties of a compound are different from those of its constituents. So, the food and tablets are not hard.

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