Geochemistry and the Environment Volume I: The Relation of Selected Trace Elements to Health and Disease (1974) / Chapter Skim
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28 THE RELATION OF SELECTED TRACE ELEMENTS TO HEALTH AND DISEASE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RESEARCH 1. The chemistry of iodine in soils, and mechanisms of uptake and translocation by terrestrial plants, are important areas for investigation.
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IV Chromium WALTER MERTZ, Chairman Ernest E Angina, Helen L
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30 THE RELATION OF SELECTED TRACE ELEMENTS TO HEALTH AND DISEASE TABLE 10 Chromium Content of Various Materials Type of Material Ultramafic and serpentine Basalts and gabbros Andesites, diorites Granitic rocks Limestones and dolomites Sandstones Cays and shales Soils Phosphorites Coal Usual Range Reported, ppm 11()
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United States suggests that the higher values are caused by industrial pollution. Chromium is amphoteric and can exist in water in more than one valence state.
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32 THE RELATION OF SELECTED TRACE ELEMENTS TO HEALTH AND DISEASE hand, unpublished work by R
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plexes) is poorly absorbed from the intestines (Mertz, 1969)
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34 THE RELATION OF SELECTED TRACE ELEMENTS TO HEALTH AND DISEASE ment with the pollution problem. In Environmental geochemistry in health and diseue, H
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