Silicon biochemistry
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Ciba Foundation symposium ;
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Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470513323 |
Item Description: |
Editors: David Evered (organizer) and Maeve O'Connor. Based on the Symposium on Silicon Biochemistry, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 17-19 September 1985. "A Wiley-Interscience publication." |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: |
9780470513323 0470513322 9780470513330 (electronic bk.) 0470513330 (electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | QP535 |
CLC: | Q58-53 |
Contents: | Sources and speciation of aluminium and silicon in natural waters / V.C. Farmer -- Introduction to silicon chemistry and biochemistry / R.J.P. Williams -- Structural aspects of biogenic silica / S. Mann, C.C. Perry -- Silicification by diatoms / Cornelius W. Sullivan -- Silica in higher plants / A.G. Sangster, M.J. Hodson -- A primer on organosilicon chemistry / Ian Fleming -- Silicon as an essential trace element in animal nutrition / Edith Muriel Carlisle -- Biological implications of the interaction (via silanol groups) of silicon with metal ions / J.D. Birchall, A.W. Espie -- Aluminosili |