trace element
Example Sentences
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Dirt collected by a resident at the site showed selenium, a trace element that can be harmful in heavy concentrations, according to the results, which were reviewed by The Times.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025
The findings also highlighted regions of concern in Bangladesh, India and Vietnam, which might benefit from interventions to reduce trace element emission from human activities.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024
Fact-checkers have so far been unable to confirm or debunk the last of these; given the intermingling of races in his ancestral Brazil, it could even contain a trace element of truth.
From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2023
Greenland, P. L. & Lovering, J. F. Minor and trace element abundances in chondritic meteorites.
From Nature • Nov. 28, 2017
They guaranteed it would have all the necessary ingredients, right down to the smallest trace element!
From Islands of Space by Campbell, John Wood
