The Mollusk Hiding Rare Minerals in its Teeth

Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their Chemical Reactions course. Sign up now and get 20% off an annual Premium subscription.Chitons are constantly scraping their teeth on rocks to eat the algae off of them, but that means their teeth need to be pretty tough. And it turns out one species's teeth are the hardest, stiffest biominerals in any living thing we've seen!Hosted by: Hank GreenSciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ----------Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow----------Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:Bryan Cloer, Chris Peters, Matt Curls, Kevin Bealer, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jacob, Christopher R Boucher, Nazara, charles george, Christoph Schwanke, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, James Knight, GrowingViolet, Sam Lutfi, Alisa Sherbow, Jason A Saslow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Melida Williams, Tom Mosner----------Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.orgFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishowTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishowInstagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow----------Sources:https://www.pnas.org/content/118/23/e2020160118https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37839-2https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/05/rare-mineral-from-rocks-found-in-chiton-teeth/https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2019/01/31/magnetic-teeth-hold-promise-materials-and-energyhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222933.2014.959574https://www.materialstoday.com/biomaterials/articles/s136970211070016x/Images:https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/15947947127https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/gumboot-chiton-gm183967843-27618844https://www.flickr.com/photos/33466410@N00/3258676083https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37839-2https://www.flickr.com/photos/odfw/8020038038https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santabarbaraite-270526.jpghttps://www.researchgate.net/figure/Chiton-teeth-and-their-formation-A-Light-micrograph-of-the-radula-of-the-chiton_fig19_342396092https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/gumboot-chiton-gm467679603-34055468