Abstract
The medicinal plants are a source of biologically important elements which are necessary both for animals
and plants. Present study investigates the concentration of elemental constituents of seven selected
medicinally important plants of Bangladesh, namely Terminalia bellirica, Centella asiatica, Pleurotus
ostreatus, Curcuma longa, Bombax ceiba and Trigonella foenum-graecum. Appropriately desiccated
samples (pellets) of these medicinal plants were bombarded with accelerated proton beam with the help of
3 MV Van de Graff accelerator at accelerator Facilities Division, Atomic Energy Center, Dhaka. Eleven
different elements- P, S, K, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Mn, Fe, Cd and I were detected by collecting the harvested X-rays
with Si(Li) detector. Data collection and analysis were performed using Maestro-32 and GUPIX
software.
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