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Chelating Agents

"Chelating Agents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Chemicals that bind to and remove ions from solutions. Many chelating agents function through the formation of COORDINATION COMPLEXES with METALS.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Chelating Agents" by people in this website by year, and whether "Chelating Agents" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 52 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2000 and 2004 and 2017
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