Background Plants that accumulate metal and metalloid trace elements to extraordinarily high concentrations in their living biomass have inspired much research worldwide during the last decades.

Tiny particles of metal and metalloid elements spray into the air from natural sources, such as volcanoes, or from human-made sources, such as ore processing. Wind currents send them to the far ...

IN the account given in NATURE, vol. xxi. p. 445, of M. Raoul Pictet's proposal to dissociate the metalloid elements the following reason is given as the ground of his belief that these elements are ...

THE task set before me is to expound in as simple and intelligible language as possible the remarkable train of reasoning which has led M. Raoul Pictet, of Geneva, to the conclusion that the so-called ...

The periodic table is like a map that organizes elements based on their atomic structure and properties. It helps scientists and students study and understand the vast variety of elements and how they ...

Elemental mapping is an imaging technique used to visualize the spatial distribution of elements within a material. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry is a widely used analytical technique for this ...