Animals depend upon two main reactions for their energy, and for the
construction of their harder tissues. The soft tissues are about the
same as the plant molecules, but the hard tissues are produced by the
reaction:
H H H F F F
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--C--C--C-- + F_{2} --> --C--C--C-- + HF
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F F F F F F
resulting in a teflon boned and shelled organism. He's going to be
tough to do much with. Diatoms leave strata of powdered teflon. The
main energy reaction is:
H H H
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--C--C--C-- ... + F_{2} --> CF_{4} + HF
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F F F
The blood catalyst metal is titanium, which results in colorless
arterial blood and violet veinous, as the titanium flips back and
forth between tri and tetra-valent states.