# Metallophyte-Armor

A material ledger for a difficult question: could a pine move copper already present in contaminated soil into monitored, harvestable inner wood?

Tolerance alone is not enough. The proposal has to explain uptake, transport, tissue capture, plant health, timber handling, and final recovery without losing copper between columns.

**read the full thing:** [pinterittejeden-gif.github.io/metallophyte-armor](https://pinterittejeden-gif.github.io/metallophyte-armor/)

## Current status

- **Known inputs:** plants manage metals, phytoremediation exists, copper preserves wood, and pine tissue changes as sapwood becomes heartwood.
- **Unproven transfer:** temporarily buffer copper in transport, then capture more near the heartwood transition.
- **Main liability:** no believable targeting mechanism or complete whole-tree copper mass balance yet.
- **Evidence today:** literature review and material-flow design only; no engineered tree or timber test.

## Repository map

- `index.html` has the full idea, mass-balance gates, lifecycle problems, roadmap, and papers.
- the mechanism diagram is drawn in HTML/CSS; `assets/` contains real reference images and [IMAGE_CREDITS.md](IMAGE_CREDITS.md) records where they came from.

If you know plant metal transport or wood science and find something wrong, open an issue.

the code is MIT licensed; my writing and diagrams are CC BY 4.0. details are in [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md).