Environment and in Living Organisms

Lanthanide partitioning between sediment, water, and biota in freshwater ecosystems in The Netherlands was recently reported (Weltje et al. 2002). Concentrations 

Levels of the lanthanides in healthy human tissues have been reported as follows (pg elements g ash) liver, 0.005 kidney, 0.002 lung, 0.004 testes, 0.002 and bone, 0.2-1.0 (Brune etal. 1980, Ger-hardsson etal. 1984). Ward (1987) found about 0.1 mgkg Nd, 0.02 mgkg La, 

02 mgkg Ce, and 0.003 mgkg Pr in bovine liver, using either neutron activation analysis (NAA) or ICP-SMS. Sabbioni etal. 

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Table 4.3. DDT content in the environment and in living organisms (according to 1994 data) [84]...

Palumbo, R. F. (1963). Factors controlling the distribution of the rare earths in the environment and in living organisms, page 533 in Radioecology, Schultz, V. and Element, A. W., Eds. (Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York). 

Chapter 4 discusses chemical and physical transformations of matter, both those that occur naturally in the environment and in living organisms and those that are invented by chemical scientists. The study of transformations spans the range from efforts to gain a fundamental understanding of naturally occurring... 

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