Definitions for "TRACE ELEMENT"
Essential mineral that is essential to nutrition. Nutritionists prefer to call minerals either minerals or trace minerals depending on the amount needed by the body, while analytical chemists prefer to call minerals, trace elements.
An element that is not essential in a mineral but that is found in small quantities in its structure or adsorbed on its surfaces.
A chemical found in very small amounts in a substance or mixture.
Keywords:  microelement, see
See microelement.
Keywords:  substance, required, body
a substance that is required by the body