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The Other Elements
Carbon and oxygen of course are not the only elements that have been
specially created to make life possible. Elements like hydrogen and nitro-
gen, which make up a large part of the bodies of living things, also pos-
sess attributes that make life possible. In fact, there appears not to be a sin-
gle element in the periodic table that does not fulfill some sort of function
in support of life.
In the basic periodic table there are ninety-two elements ranging from
hydrogen (the lightest) to uranium (the heaviest). (There are of course oth-
er elements beyond uranium but these do not occur naturally and have all
been created under laboratory conditions. None of them are stable.) Of this
ninety-two, twenty-five are directly necessary for life and of those, just
eleven–hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sodium, magnesium, phos-
phorus, sulfur, chlorine, potassium, and calcium–make up some 99% of the
body weight of nearly all living things. The other fourteen elements (vana-
dium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, molybde-
num, boron, silicon, selenium, fluorine, and iodine) are present in living or-
ganisms only in very small amounts but even these have vitally important
functions. Three elements–arsenic, tin, and tungsten–are to be found in
some living things where they perform functions that are not completely
understood. Three more elements–bromine, strontium, and barium–are
known to be present in most organisms, but their functions are still a mys-
tery. 97
This broad spectrum encompasses atoms from each of the different se-
ries of the periodic table, whose elements are grouped according to the at-
tributes of their atoms. What this indicates is that all of the element groups
of the periodic table are necessary, in one way or another, for life. In The
Biological Chemistry of the Elements, J. J. R Frausto da Silva and R. J. P
Williams have this to say:
The biological elements seem to have been selected from practically all
groups and subgroups of the periodic table... and this means that prac-
tically all kinds of chemical properties are associated with life process-
es within the limits imposed by environmental constraints. 98
Even the heavy, radioactive elements at the end of the periodic table