Oil/water extraction systems have been devised to study the lipid solubility of metal ions in sea water. Group B metals such as Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg appear to form inorganic complexes in saline solutions that are very lipid soluble. The implications of this are discussed in terms of the penetration of metals across cell membranes.
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K. Simkiss (1983) studied this question.
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