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The Brachinus crepitans, or bombardier beetle, measures just 2 cm but wields a powerful chemical defense. When threatened, it mixes hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide inside its abdomen, triggering an exothermic reaction that reaches 100 °C. It ejects bursts of corrosive benzoquinones at 500 pulses per second, burning and repelling predators. This precise, repeatable mechanism has inspired research into reigniting gas turbines in aircraft under extreme conditions as low as –50 °C. Its internal valve and chamber system is now studied in chemical engineering and advanced biomimicry.

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[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I know it but I haven't seen a good way of doing a long quote.

Just gotta do the start of each paragraph.

This is an example of a paragraph

This is paragraph 2

This is paragraph 3 without the leading >

This is paragraph 4

The comment actually looks fine in a code block on my app so I thought it was good enough. Didn't realise how shit it looked on desktop until you brought it up.

Each application will handle markdown differently, I would just stick with what is documented by Lemmy devs.