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A VERY few elements constitute all save a minute fraction of the material of which plants and animals are made; but the small residuum contains a considerable, even a large, number of elements, stored up and accumulated by the organism and so present in larger amount than in the surrounding medium. We all know that iodine, for example, is abundant in seaweeds though the amount present in sea-water is very small indeed; and molybdenum is another element in much the same case. M. Eugène Comec, several years ago, demonstrated the spectrum of molybdenum and of no less than seventeen other metals besides in the ash of seaweeds; and now I have succeeded in separating and estimating the molybdenum present in various plants and animals.
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TER MEULEN, H. Distribution of Molybdenum. Nature 130, 966 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130966b0
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