Tooth enamel

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Broader Terms

dental structure

Narrower Terms

amelogenin, enamel organ, enamelin

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• Tooth enamel is a highly mineralized tissue (tooth enamel has much more mineral content than bone).
• The key to infer past temperatures using tooth enamel is in measuring small differences in the chemical composition of oxygen in dinosaur tooth enamel, in particular, differences in the ratio of heavy (oxygen-18) to light (oxygen-16) oxygen.
• “Whatever carbon gets laid down in enamel during tooth formation stays there, so tooth enamel is a very good chronometer of the time of formation.
• Enamel Protein Function Figure 4 Tooth enamel is a wonderful biomineral that evolves as the result of highly controlled interactions between specialized enamel proteins and tooth minerals.
• "Whatever carbon gets laid down in enamel during tooth formation stays there, so tooth enamel is a very good chronometer of the time of formation.

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