Calcium from milk and dairy in the diet is stored in bone tissue until humans are in their mid-20s. Calcium moves around the body as an ion. Doctors suspected that another ion - either phosphorus or radium - was deposited instead of calcium in the workers' bones. How could you figure this out?

Calcium from milk and dairy in the diet is stored in bone tissue until humans are in their mid-20s. Calcium moves around the body as an ion. Doctors suspected that another ion - either phosphorus or radium - was deposited instead of calcium in the workers' bones. How could you figure this out?

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Calcium from milk and dairy in the diet is stored in bone tissue until humans are in their

mid-20s. Calcium moves around the body as an ion. Doctors suspected that another ion -

either phosphorus or radium - was deposited instead of calcium in the workers' bones. How

could you figure this out?

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