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Just as the major elements do, the trace elements also suffer dispersion or fractionation in the course of geochemical processes. They become distributed among phases of which they are not the essential constituents and which they did not create. They can take part in catalyses but this role, which may be quite important, is still totally unknown.
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Allègre, CJ., Michard, G. (1974). The Geochemical Fractionation of Trace Elements. In: Introduction to Geochemistry. Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2261-3_4
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