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IN experimental chronic fluorosis and in spontaneous fluorosis in man1, many authors have observed peculiar dark blue granules in paraffin and celloidin sections of decalcified bone and teeth stained with hæmatoxylin-eosin (Fig. 1). It has been suggested that these could be either calcium fluoride2,3 or merely a pathological calcification4,5. Examination of powdered material6 from bone and teeth (rat), using X-ray diffraction, failed to detect any calcium fluoride. (The method used permitted detection of 0.5 per cent or more calcium fluoride in bone powder.)
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LINDEMANN, G. A Lipid Material in Bone and Teeth in Experimental Chronic Fluorosis. Nature 180, 926 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180926a0
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