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The relationships of cancer to mineralising and bone—forming processes can be demonstrated at various levels. For example, breast tumours frequently show microcalcification deposits whose… Read More

Among vertebrates including humans. the skeleton of marine true bony fish (teleosts), with its 2-4%. carbonate content by weight, contains the least amount of carbonate and no ‘labile carbonate' (… Read More

Through the. specific anatomy of their lungs enclosed in the shell, the rhythtmic system of turtles is less autonomous than in other reptiles, higher animals or the human being. This correlates… Read More

The mineral realm in living bone

The mineralisation of the skeleton is based on the dissolved calcium, phosphate and carbonate of body fluids and even on the water and carbon dioxide of… Read More

Mineral luminescence as an expression of environment forces

By comparing luminescence phenornena of the inorganic and organic world a common motif becomes evident which can be described by… Read More

The egg shell structures of reptiles as a picture of the animal's constitution

The articles on bird egg shells in the Tycho de Brahe yearbooks 1996 and 1997 are here supplemented with an… Read More