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Science 10 November 1972:
Vol. 178. no. 4061, pp. 619 - 621
DOI: 10.1126/science.178.4061.619
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Silicon: An Essential Element for the Chick

Edith M. Carlisle 1

1 Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles 90024

Silicon is required for normal growth and development in the chick when a low silicon diet is fed in a trace element controlled environment. Day-old deutectomized cockerels fed a purified amino acid diet showed significantly retarded growth and development within 2 to 3 weeks. Chicks fed the same diet plus a silicon supplement showed 50 percent higher growth and normal development. Silicon meets the criteria for an essential trace element.


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