gegyx wrote:Kervran was interested in the chicken egg, the blackish deposit that eats the limestone stones of the monuments, the agriculture, and the means to provide certain elements that the plants or animacules transform into other vital elements (from the table of Mendeleev).
I know a little about Kervran's work. I will try to say more clearly your thoughts about the egg:
- Neither in the yellow nor in the white there is trace of calcium (Ca).
- The chick born with a skeleton composed of calcium
- The shell is obviously composed of calcium but Kervran showed that its mass remained unchanged during "gestation"
- Kervran deduced that there was a transmutation between Potassium, which is largely present in egg and calcium.
The "same" observation was made with crustaceans during their moult: no calcium in the water but an increase in the mass of calcium in the shell. Lots of potassium in the water.
Besides if you look at the periodic table, Ca and K are adjacent ... a clue?
So Kervran was a notorious charlatant (were there any confirmations of his experiences, they are not very complicated to do again) or he questions a dogma of the science of the XXI century ...