How to Use trace element in a Sentence

trace element

noun
  • As the fish moves from river to river, trace elements in the water change.
    Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 9 July 2018
  • Surely, no one is making a calendar of the best trace element plots of each year, that is for sure.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2011
  • In the past, many Americans were deficient in this trace element.
    Becca Miller, Women's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
  • One of the richest stores of data inside a core, coral detectives are finding, is its year-by-year record of trace elements in ocean water.
    Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 6 June 2018
  • But these data still do not tell us exactly what trace elements are found in the subterranean depths of our planet.
    Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Zinc Zinc is an essential trace element that helps control muscle growth and repair.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Zinc Zinc is an essential trace element that helps control muscle growth and repair.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The researchers used a scanning electron microscope and other instruments to test for trace elements on the fossils.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 Jan. 2017
  • Some TikTok creators who are working to debunk the borax trend are also suggesting that people may be conflating borax with boron, which is a trace element found in many foods.
    Julia Landwehr, Health, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Michael Shannon astutely judges every microsecond of menace as the heavy, adding trace elements of twisted levity, some scripted, some not.
    Michael Phillips, idahostatesman, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Apply a palm fertilizer with trace elements every two months March through September.
    Kathy Huber, Houston Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Other trace elements include iron, manganese, zinc, boron, molybdenum and chlorine.
    Amy Hall, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Chromium - Essential trace element that improves the body's ability to metabolize calories from fat, carbs, and protein.
    Mark Anderson, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • For blue sapphires, traditionally the most sought-after color, the important trace elements are iron and titanium.
    C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • Women of all ages can enjoy the natural benefits of essential vitamins, minerals, and trace elements offered in this unique supplement.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Related Stories Rossi and McNamara's team studied 10 million-year-old frog and tadpole fossils and the almost 50-million year-old fossils of a marine reptile and prehistoric bat using trace element chemistry.
    Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2019
  • But boron is a naturally occurring trace element that is considered a micronutrient.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Researchers focused on barium levels because the trace element in dental enamel is fairly resistant to breakdown during fossilization.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2013
  • Other trace elements including rare metals such as gadolinium – used in medical imaging – were also found by the scientists from the government's institute of aquatic science and technology.
    John Revill, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Selenium is a naturally occurring chemical important in the environment as a trace element.
    Jim Robbins, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • Microanalysis of trace element and isotopes in igneous petrology: Applications to genesis, storage, evolution, transport and eruption of magma - Everything in petrology these days is about analyzing smaller and smaller parts of the magmatic system.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2013

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