Heavy Metals

Edited by Hosam M. Saleh and Refaat F. Aglan

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Abstract: Fundamental societal changes resulted from the necessity of people to get organized in mining, transporting, processing, and circulating the heavy metals and their follow-up products, which in consequence resulted in a differentiation of society into diversified professions and even societal strata. Heavy metals are highly demanded technological materials, which drive welfare and progress of the human society, and often play essential metabolic roles. However, their eminent toxicity challenges the field of chemistry, physics, engineering, cleaner production, electronics, metabolomics, botany, biotechnology, and microbiology in an interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial manner. Today, all these scientific disciplines are called to dedicate their efforts in a synergistic way to avoid exposure of heavy metals into the eco- and biosphere, to reliably monitor and quantify heavy metal contamination, and to foster the development of novel strategies to remediate damage caused by heavy metals.

JEL-codes: Q55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78923-360-5
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Assessment of Heavy Metals in Landfill Leachate: A Case Study of Thohoyandou Landfill, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Joshua Edokpayi, Olatunde Samod Durowoju and John Odiyo

Biosorbents in the Metallic Ions Determination

Vanessa Alves, Absolon C. Da Silva Junior, Alessa G. Siqueira, Carolina A. De Sousa E Silva, Jordana De Assis N. Oliveira and Nivia Maria M. Coelho

Cadmium Iodate Syntheses and Characterization

Hebboul Zoulikha

Environmental Contamination by Heavy Metals

Vhahangwele Masindi and Khathutshelo Lilith Muedi

Estimate of Heavy Metals in Soil Using Combined Geochemistry and Field Spectroscopy in Miyi Mining Area

Ji Jian, Yao Fang, Qianyu Chen and Hengyu Tian

Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals on Primary School Learners from Dust and Soil within School Premises in Lagos State, Nigeria

Olatunde Samod Durowoju, Joshua Edokpayi, Oluseun Popoola and John Odiyo

Heavy Metal in Urban Soil: Health Risk Assessment and Management

Fei Li

Heavy Metal Pollution as a Biodiversity Threat

Efrain Tovar-Sanchez, Isela Hernandez-Plata, Miguel Santoyo-Martinez, Leticia Valencia-Cuevas and Patricia Mussali-Galante

Heavy Metal Pollution of Ecosystem in an Industrialized and Urbanized Region of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Hadiya Khalilova, Fagan Aliyev and Farhad Aliyev

Heavy Metals in Urban Dust

Fumiyuki Nakajima and Rupak Aryal

Impact of Heavy Metals on Forest Ecosystems of the European North of Russia

Irina Lyanguzova, Vasily Yarmishko, Vadim Gorshkov, Natalie Stavrova and Irina Bakkal

Introductory Chapter: Introducing Heavy Metals

Hosam M. Saleh and Martin Koller

Phytoremediation and Physiological Effects of Mixed Heavy Metals on Poplar Hybrids

Chandra Romika and Hoduck Kang

Phytoremediation of Arsenic Contaminated Water

Randhir Kumar and Tarun Banerjee

Phytoremediation: Halophytes as Promising Heavy Metal Hyperaccumulators

Kamal Usman, Mohammed Abu-Dieyeh and Mohammad Al-Ghouti

Removal of Heavy Metals Using Adsorption Processes Subject to an External Magnetic Field

Ma. Del Rosario Moreno Virgen, Omar Francisco Gonzalez Vazquez, Virginia Hernandez Montoya and Rigoberto Tovar Gomez

Removal of Heavy Metals Using Bentonite Clay and Inorganic Coagulants

Oupa Ntwampe and Kapil Moothi

Short-Term Response of Plants Grown under Heavy Metal Toxicity

Prasann Kumar and Shweta Pathak

Strategic Design of Heavy Metals Removal Agents through Zeta Potential Measurements

Eduardo A. Lopez-Maldonado and Mercedes T. Oropeza-Guzman

Tempospatial Distribution, Gas: Solid Partition, and Long- Range Transportation of Atmospheric Mercury at an Industrial City and Offshore Islands

YiHsiu Jen and Chung-Shin Yuan

The Thermodynamics of Heavy Metal Sorption onto Lignocellulosic Biomass

Carlos Escudero-Onate and Isabel Villaescusa

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