trace element

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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

These two layers are approximately equally thick, around 50 micrometers each, and they differ in terms of trace element composition.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

Selenium is a naturally occurring chemical important in the environment as a trace element.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2023

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

They guaranteed it would have all the necessary ingredients, right down to the smallest trace element!

From Islands of Space by Campbell, John Wood