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THERE is some 20 per cent difference between the mean values reported, from statistically significant numbers, for calcium, and a wide range of difference for magnesium in normal human blood serum (Table 1). It would thus appear that some, at least, of the methods currently used for the determination of these two cations in serum yield erroneous values. Indeed, until the advent of metal indicators, all so-called clinical methods for determining both calcium and magnesium were open to question.
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HUNTER, G. Calcium and Magnesium Content of Normal Human Blood Serum. Nature 182, 263–264 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182263a0
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