Features of chemical elements migration in natural waters and their deposition in the form of neocrystallisations in living organisms (physico-chemical modeling with animal testing)

Abstract

Relevance. An original modeling method is presented, which allows obtaining qualitatively new results in practice of ecological-geochemical and biomedical research. Aim. To obtain new data on the forms of element migration in the conditions of animal and human organism parameters by means of physicochemical modeling (PC "Selector") with verification of calculated data with the results obtained for real natural objects and animal organisms. Objects. Samples of natural waters and tissues of wild animals. Methods. Computer modeling (PC "Selector"); inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS, Agilent 7700x spectrometer) – 55 elements; atomic emission spectrometry (AES, spectrometer iCAP 7600 Duo) –- 5 macrocations; ion chromatography (IC, ion-liquid chromatograph LC-20) – 6 anions; inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS, mass spectrometer NexION 300D; scanning electron microscopes Hitachi S-3400N with Bruker X@Flash 5010 energy dispersive spectrometer. Results. By means of modeling, the authors have determined the qualitative and quantitative composition of the system "solution – crystalline substance". They took into account environmental conditions and physiological parameters of animal and human organism. Natural drinking water, gastric juice, mixture of drinking water and gastric juice were used as a solution, and crystalline substance was used as newly formed mineral phases in equilibrium with the solution. The work allowed establishing that the complexes assumed in the model experiment can be the cause of appearance of nanomineral phases of chemical elements in separate tissues of a living organism.

Keywords

• modeling
• natural (drinking) water
• forms of element migration
• rare earth elements
• nanomineral phases
• mammalian organs and tissues