The description by this year's curators, Jen Rosenblit and Juliette Mapp, reads like a quiet manifesto: "Our approach hopes to hone and harness a widening, a return, a certain lightness, a pause, the possibility for extreme subtlety, the essential and the elemental".
Selenium, an essential trace element, is transformed from inorganic to organic and elemental forms by many lactic acid bacteria.
The rover, for instance, found evidence that Mars' Gale Crater was once a lakebed that contained water and other "essential elemental ingredients for life".
Carbon and nitrogen are essential elemental constituents of organisms and form various chemical species on Earth.
Essential physicochemical properties including zeta potential, isoelectric point, morphology, surface area, porosity, surface density, and elemental composition of the particles were investigated, followed by biodegradability testing using the Closed Bottle Test (OECD 301D).
In the light of the above, the elemental contents of six essential and non-essential metals (Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn, Cd, and Pb) in two different edible oyster mushroom species cultivated in Haramaya, Ethiopia, on wheat straw substrate were investigated.
Dark, bare and elemental.
Boxing is basic and elemental.
It is pure and elemental, necessarily violent, riveting, nature itself.
What a beautiful legacy, pure, pale and elemental.
