Metabolism of Minerals in Living Organisms | Nutrition | Biology
Elements such as iron, copper, cobalt, manganese, iodine, selenium, etc., are required by plants and animals in very small quantities and are termed trace elements. The importance of the inorganic salts will be understood from the fact that salt starvation causes death much earlier than food starvation. Although the salts give no energy yet they are essential for our life. [...]