Inorganic bodies

Accrete The process by which inorganic bodies grow larger by the addition of fresh material to the outer surface. 

Brown, R., A brief account of microscopical observations made in the months of June, July, and August, 1827, on the particles contained in the pollen of plants and on the general existence of active molecules in organic and inorganic bodies, Phil. Mag., 4, 161, 1828. 

Tab. 4.14 Intake of inorganic body component through animal and vegetable foodstuff respectively and...

Beverages provide humans with 28% of their magnesium intake, 27% of nickel, 24% of copper, 33% of strontium, 40% of uranium, 45% of rubidium, and 58% of vanadium consumption. Drinking water, home-made beverages (tea, coffee) and beer are important suppliers of inorganic body components. 

Brown, R. (1828). On the existence of active molecules in organic and inorganic bodies. 

Important extensions of kinetic theories to solutions followed the study of the movement of small suspended particles in a liquid, first carefully investigated by R. Brown (1828), and now called the Brownian movement. What seem to have been Brownian movements were noticed by Dutrochet but regarded as optical illusions. Brown found that particles suspended in a liquid in pollen cells are in tremulous motion . He also observed the movement with fine suspended particles of gamboge and a large number of inorganic bodies and noticed the rotation of some of the particles. He seems to have thought that the motion is due to convection currents. 

Ibid. It should be noted that Kielmeyer distinguished in this lecture between organic and inorganic bodies. Like other chemists of the time, he apphed the term organic to entire plants and animals rather than to substances. Low has sometimes paraphrased the term with organic substances, which in our view is mistaken. 

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