Table 1.
Representative elemental composition of each eggshell layer.
| Membrane wt (%) | Enrichment factor (%) | Mammillary wt (%) | E. factor (%) | Palisade wt (%) | E. factor (%) | Cuticle wt (%) | E. factor (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | Dye | C. | D. | C. | D. | C. | D. | |||||
| C | 81.9 | 61.5 | −24.9 | 18 | 15.7 | −12.9 | 11.9 | 12.6 | 5.7 | 14.3 | 25.7 | 80.2 |
| N | 0 | 9.3 | > | 0 | 3.1 | > | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 | > |
| O | 13.5 | 22.7 | 67.7 | 45.3 | 44.8 | −1 | 47.5 | 47.6 | 0.2 | 47.7 | 41.7 | −12.6 |
| S | 0 | 3.2 | > | 0.1 | 0.6 | 358.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | > |
| Ca | 0 | 1.1 | > | 35.7 | 37.1 | 3.9 | 40.1 | 38.7 | −3.4 | 35.6 | 28.1 | −21.2 |
| Cu | 0 | 1 | > | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | > |