this might sound funny, but could you test SN by letting a flower absorb the SN? and seeing if the flower dies

[SufferingInDenmark]

i know it sounds like something from a cartoon maybe,
but hey... who knows, it might work.

doesn't need to be a flower... just any sort of test, besides the blood test and test strip.
because i think i will have a hard time obtaining the test strip (boring story as to why).

oh and also, i saw some people post their test strips on here, and they can be tricky to get an accurate answer from.
(maybe just due to not understanding how to do it properly, but still...)

 

[Daenerys Targaryen]

Poor flower, I feel sorry for it, even though it's a vegetal. Who knows if it will become more plant-like or die?

 

[K2PE]

I don't think it's a good method. Besides, it might work for a vegetable, but not for you.

 

[SufferingInDenmark]

Poor flower, I feel sorry for it, even though it's a vegetal. Who knows if it will become more plant-like or die?

haha yeah :)
it's hard to know.
i think if a flower or plant absorbed SN, it would most likely not help the flower blossom or become strong.
most likely, it would do the opposite... but probably not very fast, where it could be used as a reliable testing method.

or maybe it would have no affect on the plant at all.

i wonder if chat GPT would know this answer

Besides, it might work for a vegetable, but not for you.

good point

 

[notreallybored]

ב''ה, plant biology is about as extremely different from mammal biology as you can get among living things.

Without actually looking anything up, while the nitrogen might act like fertilizer the saline nature might wilt the plant for other reasons not as related to human biology. Plants also use a modest amount of oxygen for part of the metabolic cycle, just that in pretending CO2 and O2 are 'opposites' in terms of what plants and animals consume, plants take in more CO2 to provide the fuel for it and release an excess of O2 while still using O2 themselves in parts of that process, so.. I'll let a botanist field that part.

Anyway if you needed to step in and bum you out with why lab mice are used more often than plants, here you go.