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
The team adopted the well-known instrumental neutron activation analysis method, where a trace element in a chosen sample is irradiated and activated by the capture of thermal neutrons.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 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
