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Title Medical mineralogy and geochemistry / editors, Nita Sahai, Martin A.A. Schoonen
Published Chantilly, Va. : Mineralogical Society of America, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) : illustrations
Series Reviews in mineralogy and geochemistry, 1529-6466 ; v. 64
Reviews in mineralogy and geochemistry ; v. 64.
Contents The emergent field of medical mineralogy and geochemistry / Nita Sahai, Martin A.A. Schoonen, H. Catherine W. Skinner -- The toxicological geochemistry of earth materials : an overview of processes and the interdisciplinary methods used to understand them / Geoffrey S. Plumlee, Suzette A. Morman, Thomas L. Ziegler -- Metal speciation and its role in bioaccessibility and bioavailability / Richard J. Reeder, Martin A.A. Schoonen, Antonio Lanzirotti -- Aluminum, Alzheimer's Disease and the geospatial occurrence of similar disorders / Daniel P. Perl, Sharon Moalem -- Potential role of soil in the transmission of prion disease / P.T. Schramm [and others] -- Interaction of iron and calcium minerals in coals and their roles in coal dust-induced health and environmental problems / Xi Huang [and others] -- Mineral-induced formation of reactive oxygen species / Martin A.A. Schoonen [and others] -- Bone : nature of the calcium phosphate crystals and cellular, structural, and physical chemical mechanisms in their formation / Melvin J. Glimcher -- Silicate biomaterials for orthopaedic and dental implants / Marta Cerruti, Nita Sahai -- 10. Living cells in oxide glasses / Jacques Livage, Thibaud Coradin
Summary Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry (RiMG) volumes contain concise advances in theoretical and/or applied mineralogy, crystallography, petrology, and geochemistry
Notes "The review chapters in this volume were the basis for a two day short course ... held at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, U.S.A. (December 9-10, 2006)"--Page iii
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Minerals in the body.
Minerals -- Bioavailability
Minerals -- Toxicology
Mineralogy.
Geochemistry.
Bioavailability.
Minerals -- toxicity
Biological Availability
Minerals -- chemistry
mineralogy.
geochemistry.
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Mineralogy.
Bioavailability
Geochemistry
Mineralogy
Minerals -- Bioavailability
Minerals in the body
Minerals -- Toxicology
Umweltkrankheit
Mineral
Umweltchemikalie
Geosphäre
Toxikologie
Mineralogia (efeitos biológicos)
Geoquímica.
Menlo Park, Calif.
Form Electronic book
Author Sahai, Nita, editor.
Schoonen, Martin A. A., 1960- editor.
Geochemical Society
Mineralogical Society of America.
ISBN 9781501509421
150150942X