Trace Elements

Trace elements.

Trace Elements

Trace elements occur in the human and animal body in milligrams per kilograms amount or less as against major elements which occur in gram per kg.essential elements are elements required for lifewhose deficient intake results in impairment of vital functions and only intake of physiologic amounts of the element can alleviate or prevent such a disturbance in function. Certain T.Es exists in the ...

Trace Elements in Clinker –

The trace element content of clinkers (and possibly of cements) can be used for the qualitative identification (i.e. manufacturing factory). Several hundred clinker sorts have been analysed (by replicated quarterly samples, collected from all Hungarian cement factories as well as from factories of 8 foreign countries) to determine their Mg, Sr, Ba, Mn, Ti, Zr, Zn and V content. The first 6 elem...

Trace Elements and Epidemiology.

In the one hundred years since the birthday of Academician W. J. Vernadsky, in whose honour this Geochemical Conference is being held, the population of our world has grown from about 1,250 million to not far short of 3,150 million, an addition of some 1,900 million persons. Thus, there are approximately two and one half times as many people in the world today as there were when Academician Ver...

Ultra Trace Elements and Selenium

During the past decade there has been a large upsurge in interest in nutritionally essential trace elements. In the clinical field the recognition that deficiency can occur in human subjects in many practical dietary situations has been of crucial importance from the public health viewpoint worldwide. In this chapter we review briefly our knowledge of the ultra trace elements chromium, manganes...