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ALTHOUGH cadmium has been detected in a number of marine animals in amounts ranging from 0.03 to 11 mgm. per kgm. of the dried organism1,2, its presence in the sea has not so far been established except by inference3. Thus Baidet et al. 4, who were able to identify spectrographically fourteen trace metals in a concentrate from 60 1. of sea-water from Roscoff (Brittany), were not able to detect cadmium. Noddack and Noddack2 consider that the concentration of cadmium in the sea is less than 0.5 µgm./l.
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MULLIN, J., RILEY, J. Cadmium in Sea-water. Nature 174, 42 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174042a0
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