Discussion
The element which is generally absorbed by plants along with Zn and causes "Ouch Ouch" disease in human beings is
Answer: B
The element is Cadmium (Cd).
Itai-itai disease (Japanese for 'ouch ouch') broke out in the Jinzu river basin of Toyama, Japan, where mining waste carrying cadmium contaminated paddy fields. Cadmium occurs in nature with zinc ores, behaves chemically like zinc and is taken up by rice plants along with it. In people it damages the kidneys and softens the bones, causing severe bone pain and fractures, which gave the disease its name.
Mercury poisoning is Minamata disease, not itai-itai. Tin is of low toxicity in its inorganic forms, and chromium (especially hexavalent chromium) is known for skin ulcers and cancer risk, not for this bone disease.
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