Science news articles about 'elemental selenium'

LEICESTER, England, June 23 (UPI) -- British scientists say they've found the chemical element selenium can be used to determine how oceans' oxygen content has changed.

... for selenate, reducing it to insoluble, less-toxic elemental selenium that can potentially be recovered from the process. A study ... of selenate are converted to methylated selenium species or nano-sized elemental selenium particles. The emission ...

... could potentially be harvested by using oxide materials that contain the element selenium. A team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, embedded selenium in zinc oxide, a relatively inexpensive material ...

... in the liver, where it transports the essential trace element selenium from the liver to other parts of the body. But the protein's clinical significance and, more specifically, its role in glucose homeostasis ...

... . The HABs also have a larger number of selenoproteins, which use the trace element selenium to perform essential cell functions illustrating a concordance between the genome and the ecosystem where it's blooming ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif., April 25 (UPI) -- Honeybees' foraging behavior and survival could be impacted by the chemical element selenium at polluted sites, U.S. scientists say.