How does the composition of bones and tooth enamel differ? In this case I'm referring to fossils. I know that the enamel is hydroxlapatite, but what is the bone and how does it differ?
Bone composition is mainly made up of Matrix materials incorporating the inorganic minerals calcium that gives bones their rigidity and collagen,elastic proteins improves fracture resistance.
Tooth enamel composition is 96% minerals, with water and protein accounting for the 4%.
The biological apatites forms of calcium hydroxyapatite which has formula ca10(po46(oH)2
Bone is the substance that forms the skeleton of the body. Tooth enmel is the hardest and most highly mineralised substance in the body, where where bone hard material for network of skeleton system.
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