Silicon in life : A bioinorganic solution to bioorganic essentiality 

 -  Journal of Inorganic BioChemistry, 69(3), p.139-144, 1998 .
<br/><br/> The essentiality of silicon in biota is described from the perspective of the interrelationships between geochemistry, biological evolution and biochemistry. A punctuated, as opposed to continuous, silicon bi-cycle implicates the environmental silicic acid concentration in such seemingly diverse processes as catchment acidification, global warming and chronic disease in man. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>SILICON (IN BIOLOGY)<br/>ALUMINIUM (IN BIOLOGY)<br/>CATCHMENT ACIDIFICATION<br/>GLOBAL WARMING<br/>BIOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION.