However, inorganic minerals generally enter surface water and ground water via storm water runoff or through the Earth's crust.

Enamel is 96% inorganic mineral, with water and organic material composing the rest.

The animals absorb,digest and use mineral chelates better than inorganic minerals.

Trace mineral chelates have proven to be better than inorganic minerals in meeting the nutritional needs of modern farm animals.

Increasing the concentration of inorganic minerals in animal diets has led to several problems.

Secondly, inorganic minerals may form insoluble complexes with other dietary agents resulting in low absorption.

Finally, the poor retention and high excretion rates of inorganic minerals led to environmental concerns during the 1980s and 1990s, especially in Europe .

The effect of replacing inorganic minerals with organic minerals in broiler chickens.

There were no differences in performance between the birds fed the high inorganic minerals and the birds fed the low organic chelates.

In the omasum, water and many of the inorganic mineral elements are absorbed into the blood stream.