The Insoluble Ionic Material Makes Our Skeleton and Teeth

2 The Insoluble Ionic Material Makes Our Skeleton and Teeth 

FIGURE 8.6 A constituent of our bone material is hydroxyapatite, Caio(P04)6(OH)2- Note that it is made of small crystals. In the living body, these small crystals are dispersed in a matrix of collagen. This scanning electron microscopy image of a rat bone is in the public domain and was obtained from http //commons.wikimedia.0rg/wiki/File Bertazzo S SEM deproteined bone - cranium rat - x 1 Ok.jpg. 

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