Metabolically Induced Precipitation of Trace Elements from Sea Water
- 22 May 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 129 (3360) , 1428-1429
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.129.3360.1428
Abstract
The presence of organic material in some manganese-rich nodules suggests that the nodules are of biological origin. This suggestion leads to the proposal that in sea water, heavy metals get protection from hydrolysis by organic complexing; parts of these complexes become metabolized, the remaining parts then precipitate. These processes would explain a number of interesting observations.Keywords
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