Sentence examples for as a trace element from inspiring English sources

The copper present in humans as a trace element helps catalyze hemoglobin formation.

As a trace element in people's diet, manganese is essential to keeping organs, including the brain, healthy.

Copper (Cu) is well suited for this purpose, since it exhibits a well-known antimicrobial activity and can be found as a trace element in the human body, i.e. it is nontoxic in small concentrations.

A less obvious example of a specialized mineral requirement is provided by calcium, which is required by higher animals in comparatively large amounts because it is a major component of bone and eggshells (in birds); for other organisms, calcium is an essential nutrient but only as a trace element.

Practically, gold is not an element required by plants as a trace element; however, the accidental absorption or insertion may often show some dramatic change in plant growth.

CA starch has Potassium (K) as a trace element while MS starch has Sodium (Na) and Sulphur (S) as trace elements.

Arsenic (As) is a trace element in the Earth's crust.

The addition of a vitamin mixture (C) to the production media influenced only slightly the three responses, as well as the addition of a trace element solution (D).

The lower chlorine concentrations found in forsterite (Bernini et al., 2012) can be due to the lack of a trace element (such as Ti) capable of enhance water and consequently chlorine incorporation.

XRF also presents good information regarding the dissolved colourants, such as Cu, Fe and Co, as well as trace elements (As, Ag, U) accompanying them, that cannot be detected by Raman spectroscopy.

Even though the elemental composition of E. nuttallii biomass contains the basic nutrients for a complete fertilizer as well as trace elements, the use of the biomass as an organic fertilizer is not to be recommended due to its slow decomposition in soil.