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什么是 Mineral matter and organic matter?

又称: mineral matter · mineral salts · organic matter

Definition 1.5 High School Biology · 第 1 章 — The Chemical Makeup of Living Things

The molecules of a living thing fall into two groups. Mineral matter is made of molecules that also exist outside living things: water and the dissolved mineral salts (ions such as Na+\mathrm{Na^+}, K+\mathrm{K^+}, Ca2+\mathrm{Ca^{2+}}, Cl−\mathrm{Cl^-}, phosphate and bicarbonate). Organic matter is made of molecules built on a skeleton of carbon atoms bonded to hydrogen, and usually to oxygen and nitrogen — molecules that, on Earth, are made only by living things or from their remains.

A fresh apple slice and the same slice after drying: what remains is the dry matter, a sixth of the original mass. The rest was water.
A fresh apple slice and the same slice after drying: what remains is the dry matter, a sixth of the original mass. The rest was water.

示例

Example 1.7 (Drying an apple slice)

A slice of fresh apple of mass 24.0 g24.0\,\mathrm{g} is dried until its mass settles at 3.6 g3.6\,\mathrm{g}. Water lost: 24.0−3.6=20.4 g24.0 - 3.6 = 20.4\,\mathrm{g}, i.e. 20.4/24.0=0.8520.4/24.0 = 0.85, or 85% of the fresh mass. The 3.6 g3.6\,\mathrm{g} that remain are the dry matter: organic molecules plus mineral salts. Burn that dry matter and about 0.1 g0.1\,\mathrm{g} of pale ash — the mineral salts — survives; the rest, the organic part, has left as carbon dioxide and water vapour.

Example 1.9 (Mineral salts you can name)

Calcium phosphate stiffens bone and teeth (calcium is 1.5% of body mass, almost all in the skeleton). Sodium and chloride ions set the salinity of blood, close to 9 g/L9\,\mathrm{g}/\mathrm{L}; potassium ions are concentrated inside cells; iron sits at the heart of haemoglobin; iodine is needed to make the hormone of the thyroid gland. A mineral salt is never a source of energy, but a body deprived of one of them fails at a precise task.

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