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Plant and animal nutritionists, veterinarians, toxicologists and physicians have long been aware of the benefits of certain elements and the hazards of others to the health of plants, livestock and man. This Chapter is concerned with three elements, arsenic, selenium and antimony, which are commonly identified with the toxic or potentially toxic metals, but in view of their chemical and physical properties they are more suitably termed metalloids. Mason (1966) includes these elements in the chalcophile group, for they normally occur in sulphide minerals and form volatile species upon combustion. They are also referred to as atmophile elements by some authors because of their volatility.
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