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The most common mineral components are calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate (hydroxyapatite), and amorphous silica.

The dominant mineral components are clay minerals and the pyrite content is low resulting in a simple mineral composition for the Heidaigou coal.

Petrology named feldspar lithic sandstone and lithic feldspathic sandstone, and the main mineral components are quartz, feldspar, and debris, with the average content of 28.5, 39.8, and 31.7%, respectively (Fig. 3).

Mineral components are important to stem cell localization; matrix components are important to constraint of stem cells; and bone-forming osteoblasts are also very important to the support and proliferation of stem cells, the calcium-sensing receptor, located on the surface of HSCs and other cells, is critical to stem cells finding their niche.

European firms are set to be offered a voluntary self-certification scheme to prove that their products' mineral components were not sold by warlords to fuel bloody conflicts, under a draft EU law that falls short of campaigners' expectations.

The adsorption of the cellulase onto these mineral components was measured and quantified by the slope of the adsorption isotherm.

The average contents of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, extractives and mineral components were 66.9%, 18.4%, 14.7%, 11.6% and 1.8%, respectively.

The loss of hydroxyapatite mineral components is related to the period when bacteria fermenting carbohydrates may freely develop and synthesize acids into carbohydrates metabolism byproducts.

In this study, molecular geometries of pamidronate, alendronate and neridronate, differing only in the length of the aliphatic chains, were predicted by molecular mechanics and their interactions with hydroxyapatite, the main bone mineral component, were examined.

Collagen provides elasticity and structure in all connective tissues and several studies have indicated that collagen is important for bone toughness [ 43- 45] whereas the mineral component is mainly involved in providing stiffness.

In our hands, vitamin B6 deficiency has been a useful alternative model to study the effect(s) of altered intermolecular collagen cross-links on whole bone, because the mineral component is unaltered [ 15].