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Table 10.2 Bioprocessed Materials

Metallurgical
materials

None (except for Au peromicrobium)

Organic materials Plenty and versatile

Inorganic materials
evolutionally

Limited and selected

1. Silica (Opal) Diatoms, Radiolaria Skeleton Silica blade of pampas

grass

Plants Leaves, cell wall

2. Iron oxides Bacteria, tuna, salmon Sensors

Chitons, limpets Teeth

Beaver, rat, fish Teeth surface

3. Iron sulfides Gastropod Dermal sclerite

4. Ca carbonates Mollusks, gastropod Shells

Corals Cell wall Gastropod with iron

sulfide armor

Cocolithophoridae Cell wall scales

Aves Egg shells

5. Ca phosphates Fish Scales

Vertebrates Bones

Mammals Teeth

Chitons Teeth

6. Ca sulfate Jellyfish Gravity receptor

Ba sulfates Loxodes, Xenophyophora Gravity receptor

Sr sulfates Acantharea Skeleton

Other minerals ( , 100) are formed outside the bodies by bacterial process.
Source: After S. Mann [15] and modified by M. Yoshimura.