Silicon biochemistry

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Symposium on Silicon Biochemistry Ciba Foundation
Group Author: Evered, David; O'Connor, Maeve
Published:
Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Ciba Foundation symposium ; 121
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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