I. Plant foods, especially green leafy vegetables, are the cheapest and richest source of calcium in developing countries and are recommended in balanced diets. Hence it was worth while obtaining further information about the availability of Ca from these commonly-consumed green leaves. 2. The green leafy vegetable belonging to Amaranthus spp. was taken as a suitable experimental model because ...

Stable Ca isotopes are fractionated between bones, urine and blood of animals and between soils, roots and leaves of plants by >1000 ppm for the 44Ca/40Ca ratio. These isotopic variations have important implications to understand Ca transport and fluxes in living organisms; however, the mechanisms of isotopic fractionation are unclear. Here we present ab initio calculations for the isotopic fra...

Bimetallic oxalates are layered molecule-based magnets with transition metals M II and M III coupled by oxalate molecules ox=C2O4 in an open honeycomb structure. Among the most interesting molecule-based magnets, Fe II Fe III bimetallic compounds with spins S=2 and S =5 /2 ferrimagnetically order at a transition temperature Tc that ranges from 30 to 48 K, depending on the organic cation between...