Spinach Iron Content Error

Spinach Iron Content Error

The reason Popeye eats spinach is because of an error in the calculation of its iron content by chemist Erich von Wolf in 1870. He misplaced a decimal point, recording spinach as having 35mg of iron per 100g, instead of its true value of 3.5mg/100g. The former value is equal to the eating part of a paperclip.

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