Question

16, A doctor prescribed a tablet to a patient suffering from iron deficiency. The tablet
does not look like iron. Explain.
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Answer 1

Answer:

here is your answer

Explanation:

Doctor prescribes the Iron tablets to a person suffering with iron deficiency.

Iron tablets does not contains iron metal, rather it contains Iron salts like ferrous sulphate,ferrous citrate etc.

On taking these tablets,during digestion the salts of iron break down.

Hence iron tablets does not look like iron which is a metal in element form. pls mark me as brainliest answer

Answer 2

Answer:

because the iron refers to the minerals contains iron compound. as we can't directly take iron like a solid piece of loha. that's why.