2018 Seedles Southwest Wildflower Seed Balls: Lead Free

When tested with an XRF instrument these seed balls had the following readings (if a metal is not listed it was not detected):

Orange Balls:

• Barium (Ba): 1,470 +/- 94 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 115 +/- 35 ppm
• Bromine (Br): 4 +/- 2 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 48 +/- 9 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 32 +/- 11 ppm
• Nickel (Ni): 17 +/- 10 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 11,400 +/- 100 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 28 +/- 5 ppm

Blue Balls

• Barium (Ba): 1,472 +/- 169 ppm
• Bromine (Br): 6 +/- 3 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 45 +/- 16 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 553 +/- 31 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 6,598 +/- 138 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 24 +/- 8 ppm

Purple Balls

• Barium (Ba): 1,473 +/- 183 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 107 +/- 70 ppm
• Bromine (Br): 6 +/- 3 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 23 +/- 15 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 328 +/- 26 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 4,971 +/- 122 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 22 +/- 8 ppm

Yellow Balls

• Barium (Ba): 1,132 +/- 196 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 132 +/- 73 ppm
• Bromine (Br): 8 +/- 4 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 42 +/- 18 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 37 +/- 22 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 10,100 +/- 200 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 27 +/- 10 ppm

Green Balls

• Barium (Ba): 1,351 +/- 138 ppm
• Chromium (Cr): 8,386 +/- 180 ppm
• Bromine (Br): 6 +/- 3 ppm
• Zinc (Zn): 32 +/- 14 ppm
• Copper (Cu): 44 +/- 17 ppm
• Iron (Fe): 6,710 +/- 138 ppm
• Bismuth (Bi): 25 +/- 7 ppm

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Tamara Rubin
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