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Answers: Its used historically as the name copperas...it is extracted from oxidation (calcining) of iron pyrite iron sulfide FeS2 (fool's gold), as ferrous sulfate Fe2O3 etc. It is trouble-free to make anywhere in that is pyrite. So it is traditionally easily accessible, cheap to construction and able to treat iron negative amount anemia.
Because ferrous sulfate IS iron.
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