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Periodic table highlighting critical elements and ore components defined as critical minerals (CM) in 2022 [6]. Of the CM (highlighted in yellow, green, or orange), the nutrients currently considered essential for humans are green and the rare earth elements are orange [11,16,17,18,19,20].
