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The healthy human adult contains on an average 4–5 g of iron (Fig. 4/1), but individual values depend on body weight, on the total amount of the circulating hemoglobin, and on iron stores, so that the normal variation may be between 3 and 6 g.
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Bernát, I. (1983). Distribution and Function of the Iron-Containing Complexes of the Human Organism. In: Iron Metabolism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7308-1_4
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