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Dietary element
Dietary elements
(commonly known as
dietary minerals
) or
mineral nutrients
are the
chemical elements
required by living
organisms
, other than the four elements
carbon
,
hydrogen
,
nitrogen
, and
oxygen
present in common
organic molecules
. The term "dietary mineral" is
archaic
, as the substances it refers to are
chemical elements
rather than actual
minerals
.
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