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selenium
noun
A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34.
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Copper ore, for instance, often contains molybdenum, rhenium, selenium, tellurium, along with small amounts of rare-earth elements.
In the al-Sanaf marsh, for example, there is particular concern about selenium.
It also furnished prodigious amounts of zinc, lead and selenium from the region's mines.
Selenium deposits threaten the many visiting migratory birds.
It was set up as the result of a European research project called BioShale, which showed that bacteria could recover nickel, copper, lead, silver, zinc, cobalt, rhenium, selenium, tin, gold, platinum, palladium and uranium from Europe's extensive but underexploited "black shale" deposits.
The worst example is the leaching of selenium into Kesterson reservoir, where it has caused grotesque deformations in birds.Next in scale was the diversion of Colorado river water to the Imperial valley irrigation district in southern California.
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In Denmark in 1923, an oscillograph light modulator and selenium-cell reproducer were developed.
The copy paper itself originally provided the treated surface, but the substitution of the selenium-coated drum permitted the use of ordinary paper.
Another species might use natural organic acids as a carbon source and selenium-containing pollutants as electron acceptors.
The selenium-containing enzyme glutathione peroxidase, which plays a crucial role in prevention of damage due to radicals derived from lipid hydroperoxides, is believed to function via formation of an intermediate with a sulfur-selenium bond that is significantly more reactive toward a thiol nucleophile than a sulfur-sulfur (disulfide) bond.
Ribbons of steel a metre wide and half a hair's width thick spool through vacuum chambers in which they are sputtered with copper, indium, gallium and selenium collectively known as CIGS.
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